Lakewood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, managed by Ralley LLC since May 2023 and owned by Century Pennsylvania Holdco LLC, provides skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and healthcare services for older adults who need different levels of care, whether for short-term rehabilitation or long-term support, and it sits with 110 certified beds and about 94 residents on average every day. The place offers a mix of care including skilled nursing, memory care, wound care, IV therapy, bariatric care, palliative care, and even respiratory care, while also supporting those with dementia or those who need regular help with daily tasks like toileting, transferring, or mobility, since many residents need this kind of assistance-92.1% need help with toileting and/or incontinent care, another 92.1% need help moving from a bed or wheelchair, and 77.2% can't get out of a wheelchair or bed on their own. There's a team that works to make individualized care plans, with services including medication management, nutritional support, and full-service rehabilitation, using physical, occupational, and speech therapy to help folks recover and reach goals, while aiming to help some residents go home after a hospital stay.
The staff at Lakewood delivers round-the-clock nursing care, with the average staff nurse hours per resident per day at about 3.42 and nursing assistants giving around 2.01 hours in 2024, though the facility has had times with low staffing-some years with days under 2.0 CNA hours per patient ranging from nearly 46% in 2024 up to a big 89% in 2022, and this has been a problem for more than four straight years. The leadership says they're committed to making the facility warm and welcoming so residents feel comfortable and cared for, with amenities designed for comfort and spaces that try to make the place feel homely and familiar. The team works to be supportive and keeps up with new treatments, while tailoring plans to each person's health, physical, and emotional needs. Besides the usual nursing care, the facility offers specialized services, and makes sure to address complex and ongoing healthcare situations with skilled staff.
Now, the facility's had a long history of quality issues, with government data designating it as a Special Focus Facility Candidate and also showing that actual harm to residents has occurred on multiple days in 2024, specifically on February 29, July 21, and August 30. Government inspection reports give Lakewood the lowest possible overall rating for a full year running from January 2024 to January 2025, along with the worst health inspection results for eight straight months in that time span, plus the worst staffing rating covering 54 months going back to 2014, which means staffing has regularly fallen below what's considered safe. Over the years, Lakewood collected 91 reported deficiencies in inspection reports going back to 2013, with eight written deficiencies since July 2013 alone, five of which were infection-related, and the reports describe real harm for residents. Inspectors also found failure to provide pharmaceutical services and keep a licensed pharmacist (F0755) and lapses in responding to alleged violations (F0610), with potential for more than minimal harm in both cases. The business end shows large revenues, like $16.6 million in 2018, and the indirect ownership structure runs through entities like Century I Tbd Holdco LLC, Kulanu OC Trust, Shai Berdugo, and Efraim Klein, with Century Healthcare its affiliate.
Lakewood does offer comprehensive services, aiming for compassion, dignity, and comfort, with trained staff focused on residents' well-being, but families should know the facility's long record of safety and staffing concerns, and the actual harm found by state and federal inspectors, as well as its repeated low ratings, when considering Lakewood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center as a care option for a loved one who needs skilled nursing and rehabilitation.
