Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation

Westminster Woods’ Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, The Oaks Health Center, provides 24-hour personalized care and special services to our residents based on their unique individual needs. Our services include a range of long- and short-term skilled nursing care services including rehabilitation therapy, care for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of memory impairment, respite services and hospice services.

Selected in 2010 by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 173 nursing homes in the country, The Oaks at Westminster Woods strives to provide the highest quality of care in an environment that is caring, supportive, and helps our residents retain their joy of life.

In addition, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Office of Long-Term Living has named The Oaks one of the inaugural recipients of the Excellence in Quality Care Award. Only twelve facilities in the Commonwealth have earned this honor.

Westminster Woods at Huntingdon is in a very select group of outstanding Pennsylvania nursing facilities that received both a Five-Star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as well as meriting a deficiency-free survey from the Department of Health in 2009. To put this in perspective, only 1.8% of nursing facilities achieved this dual distinction.

In addition we have embraced new technologies to further enhance the lives of the people we serve. Read further to learn more about how we use Point of Care and Millennium, two unique technology platforms designed to enhance communication and quality of care.

Contact: Cheryl Korman | (814) 644-2057 | ckorman@presbyterianseniorliving.org

As with all levels in our continuum of care, our licensed nursing staff works in concert with residents and their families, as well as the rest of our team, to ensure each individual’s needs are met and that services are adjusted as those needs change. In addition, if you are admitted for a respite stay, recuperative care or short stay rehabilitation, our discharge planning support will help to ensure that everything is ready for your return home.

If you have questions, you may want to review our list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), which was compiled with the help of our Skilled Nursing residents. If your question is not answered by our list of FAQs, please don’t hesitate to call us at (800) 392-7981.

Our list of services follows.

Services

• Semi-Private Rooms
• Long-Term Skilled Nursing Care
• Millennium Pharmacy System
• Point of Care Resident Information System
• Hospice Care
• Respite Care
• Recuperative Care
• Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation  
  
  • Physical Therapy to restore function for individuals who have experienced neuromuscular or skeletal dysfunction
  • Occupational Therapy to assist individuals with adaptation to their social and physical environment
  • Speech Therapy to address communication and swallowing dysfunction
• Activities and Social Events (organized by a full-time activities director)
• Chaplain Services (for all of our residents and families)
• Wound Care
• Cardiac Rehab

We are pleased to be one of the first in our area to utilize Point of Care and Millennium.

Point of Care is a real-time computerized resident information system which enables licensed nursing staff as well as nursing assistants to access resident care needs and assignment information. This enables them to complete documentation at the time the observation and care occur. Armed with laptops and using a simple point-and-click interface, users can document with accuracy and speed. Security allows users profile-based access to specific information and documentation, which helps to ensure security of personal health information. Nursing assistants are now “charting as they go” instead of waiting until the end of their shifts and trying to remember what happened throughout the day. It also enables the charge nurse to monitor resident care from any computer.

The Millennium Pharmacy System is also a computerized system designed to deliver significant benefits to the long-term care industry, including increased nursing efficiency and enhanced resident safety.

When you have a few minutes, take time to ask one of the nursing staff about both Point of Care and Millennium.