Burgh Care Center

Burgh Care Center has an overall CMS Care Compare rating of 1 out of 5 stars. It scores 1 of 5 on health inspection, 3 of 5 on staffing, and 4 of 5 on quality measures. The overall rating averages these subscores with health inspection weighted more heavily.

CMS has placed an abuse icon on this facility, indicating a substantiated finding of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a resident. It has $402,762 in federal fines across 4 penalties on record in the last 36 months. The full record for Burgh Care Center appears in the record section above.

23.6 percent of long-stay residents at Burgh Care Center are on antipsychotic medications, above the 14 percent national median (CMS measure 481). Sedative and sleep-medication use is also elevated at 11.0 percent. Medications can be appropriate, but they are also commonly used to manage dementia-related behaviors instead of staffing or non-medication approaches. Worth asking on a tour: what behaviors the medication targets and what non-medication options were tried first.

Burgh Care Center has a Palmelle Clarity Score of 0 out of 100, putting it below the national median. The score is a composite of federal CMS and Pennsylvania state inspection data. Higher is better.

Burgh Care Center is located at 909 WEST STREET, Pittsburgh, PA 15221. Phone: (412) 723-3662. Website: contact facility. Tour hours: contact facility for current schedule. If you would like a Palmelle senior placement advisor to compare this facility with two others on your shortlist and call them on your behalf, use Help Me Choose.

Burgh Care Center carries special focus status (SFF Candidate) on the federal program that identifies facilities with persistent quality problems.

F-689 is a federal CMS deficiency code for inadequate supervision resulting in actual resident harm. If Burgh Care Center has any active citations or CMS conflict flags, they appear with their details in the record section above, along with any operator response.

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