Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation

    194 Swinderman Rd, Wexford, PA 15090
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate care helped my mother

    I had a very positive experience at North Hills - the staff were warm, professional, and genuinely caring. Nurses, aides and therapists went above and beyond; the rehab team helped my mother regain strength and return home. Meals were fresh and home-cooked, the building was spotless and homey, and administration stayed involved with clear updates. I felt my family member was treated with dignity and compassion and would recommend this facility for short- or long-term care.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.35·(161)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.2
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      3.1
    • Amenities

      3.1
    • Value

      1.7

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing staff
    • Skilled physical, occupational, and speech therapy
    • Small, home-like atmosphere
    • Engaged and visible administration
    • Effective social work and discharge planning
    • Clear therapy progress communication
    • Personalized care and equipment adaptations
    • Engaging activities and life-enrichment programs
    • Clean and well-maintained public areas (frequently cited)
    • Sunlight-filled rooms and pleasant views
    • Strong teamwork across clinical departments
    • Effective wound and post-hospital care
    • Accessible physicians and clinical leadership
    • Housekeeping and maintenance responsiveness
    • Family-style dining and homecooked meal options
    • Post-discharge support and follow-up
    • Dementia-capable programming and translation support
    • Warm, family-like resident interactions

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels and night-shift shortages
    • High staff turnover affecting continuity of care
    • Delays in nurse-call response and bedside assistance
    • Medication-administration and management lapses
    • Inconsistent sanitation and housekeeping practices
    • Infection-control inconsistencies
    • Dietary protocol lapses and limited beverage options
    • Aging physical plant with cramped/shared bathrooms
    • Limited therapy space and equipment constraints
    • Poor telephone and front-desk communication systems
    • Laundry and personal-item management gaps
    • Inconsistent leadership/management practices and culture
    • High private-pay cost

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews are highly polarized but reveal a consistent set of strengths and operational weaknesses. On the positive side, families and patients frequently highlight compassionate, engaged nursing staff and a strong therapy program (PT/OT/SLP) that achieves measurable recovery outcomes. The facility’s small, home-like scale, visible administration, and active social work/discharge coordination are repeatedly credited with helping residents transition home and with keeping families informed. Many accounts emphasize personalized care — from adaptive equipment to individual therapy plans — and describe a warm, family-like culture supported by active life-enrichment programming.

    Care and staff: Nursing and therapy teams receive strong, repeated praise for clinical skill, motivation, and one-on-one attention. Several reviewers described notable rehabilitation progress, effective wound care, and clear communication from therapists and therapy leadership. At the same time, a persistent pattern of staffing instability is evident: night-shift shortages, high turnover, and occasions of overworked aides were linked to delays in attending to resident needs. These operational staffing patterns correlate with documented issues such as delayed call-bell responses and occasional medication-administration lapses.

    Dining and activities: Activity programming and recreational offerings are frequently described as engaging — music groups, games, birthday events, and consistent daily activities contribute to resident satisfaction. Dining impressions are mixed: many reviewers praise homecooked-style meals and improved menus, while others report cold or limited meal options, pre-made items, and lapses in dietary protocol (including failure to provide ordered supplements or special-diet adherence). These inconsistencies suggest variability in meal service execution and adherence to individualized nutrition orders.

    Facilities and infection control: The facility’s smaller footprint and sunlit rooms are assets for many residents, and housekeeping is commended in numerous accounts. However, multiple reviews raise sanitation and cleanliness concerns in specific areas (including shared bathroom conditions and cleaning frequency), and there are references to infection-control issues and regulatory citations related to dining. The physical plant shows signs of aging in places — cramped shared bathrooms, limited space for equipment, and areas needing cosmetic updates — which can affect both convenience and infection-prevention practices.

    Management and patterns: Administrative engagement is a clear strength in many reports; the on-site director and social work team are frequently praised for accessibility and coordination. Conversely, other accounts describe inconsistent management responses, a blame-oriented culture, and communication breakdowns (including a problematic phone system and front-desk accessibility). Operational weaknesses that recur across reviews include laundry and personal-item handling gaps, inconsistent implementation of clinical protocols, and uneven experience between long-term residents and short-term rehab patients.

    Bottom line: For families prioritizing strong, personalized rehabilitation and a small, home-like setting with engaged staff, this facility offers many important strengths. Prospective residents should, however, be aware of operational variability tied to staffing levels, food-service consistency, housekeeping and infection-control practices, and parts of an aging physical plant. Those considering placement would benefit from asking targeted questions about current staffing ratios (including night coverage), infection-prevention measures, dietary-protocol adherence, laundry procedures, and recent regulatory follow-up to ensure that the aspects that matter most to them are being actively managed.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation is located at 194 Swinderman Rd, Wexford, PA, 15090.

    About Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation

    Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation sits in Wexford, Pennsylvania, in a mansion-turned-rehabilitation center offering both nursing care and rehab services for seniors. The building holds 55 certified beds and splits into two units, with 25 long-term care beds downstairs in the main mansion and 30 subacute beds upstairs. Staff nurses work on site, and therapy staff are there six days a week, while the facility provides skilled nursing, intermediate care, and dementia care. Residents get services like long-term care, subacute rehab, respite care for short-term stays, wound vac therapy, ostomy care, trach care, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and hospice and palliative care, all focused on a patient-centered approach that tries to treat people with respect, dignity, and empathy.

    The building features semi-private rooms, laundry services (both staff-provided and self-serve), Wanderguard for safety, a fully equipped gym, and a practice kitchen for therapy. The center's management and ownership include Limestone Enterprises LLC, Yisroel Moskowitz, Elliott Gestetner, and a few others, with many sharing responsibility over operations. It's a for-profit corporation with indirect ownership by Gem Family 2020 Ngcg Nevada Trust. On average, about 48 residents live there each day, and nurse staffing comes out to around 4.50 hours per resident daily, though the nurse turnover rate is above 68%. It's close to local hospitals like AHN Wexford, UPMC Passavant, UPMC Cranberry, St. Clair Hospital, and UPMC Mercy, which helps with access to medical care.

    People can pay using private pay, private insurance, long-term care insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, managed care, or several other ways. The home gets inspected and must meet federal rules to help stop infection from spreading among residents, but it had 36 deficiencies in inspection reports, including problems with pharmacy drug labeling and storage, informing residents about arbitration agreements, nutrition and dietary standards, and some infection issues. None of the deficiencies caused actual harm, but they have been noted as having potential for harm, affecting groups of people at different levels.

    While Harmony Hills emphasizes creating a comfortable, homelike setting with a warm and cozy feeling, and the staff tries for compassionate and family-oriented care, the facility also works under strict nursing home standards and gets reviewed by inspectors, so families can see a recent picture of how it runs. Harmony Hills serves as both a short-term rehab spot for people moving from the hospital or as a long-term place for those needing skilled nursing care, and the facility keeps a focus on meeting the daily needs of residents with support and proper medical oversight.

    People often ask...

    Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    No, Harmony Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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