Laurel Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

    1020 Oak Lane Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19126
    • Skilled Nursing

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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

    4.88·(32)

    Overall rating

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

      4.8
    • Staff

      4.8
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      4.9
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, professional nursing staff
    • Responsive and communicative admissions and leadership (notably LuLu)
    • Spanish-language support and cultural sensitivity
    • Strong physical- and occupational-therapy services
    • Engaging activity programming and exercise groups
    • Clean, odor-free facility and well-maintained environment
    • Timely maintenance responsiveness
    • Stable staffing and timely direct-care response
    • Welcoming, dignified admission experience
    • Outdoor-visit accommodations and family-friendly spaces

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staff conduct and managerial oversight
    • Medication-management and documentation gaps
    • Variability in meal quality
    • Inconsistent care continuity during transitions and discharges
    • Allegations of individual misconduct and financial/documentation irregularities

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Laurel Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center receives substantial praise for its day-to-day caregiving, admissions process, and rehabilitative services. Many families described interactions with nursing and direct-care staff as professional, compassionate, and reassuring, and repeatedly named the admissions representative LuLu (LuLu/Lulu Lebron) for clear communication, responsiveness, and Spanish-language support. The facility is also commonly described as clean, odor-free, and well maintained.

    Care and clinical services: Reviewers commonly praised attentive nursing care, hands-on management, and effective physical- and occupational-therapy teams that contributed to improved mobility for residents. Activity staff and exercise groups were noted as engaging, and an active therapy program and dedicated activity director were described in several accounts. Language support and culturally sensitive care for Spanish-speaking residents were highlighted as a consistent strength.

    Facilities and family experience: The physical environment is frequently characterized as clean and comfortable, with timely maintenance response and options for outdoor visits. Families reported feeling at ease after tours and valued a dignified, welcoming admission experience. Staff-resident interactions are generally described as respectful and reassuring, which many families found helpful during transitions into the facility.

    Dining and operations: Food quality drew occasional dissatisfaction; several comments suggested variability in meal experience. Operationally, many reviewers described responsive communication lines with admissions and management, and hands-on leadership that participates in day-to-day patient care and family concerns.

    Notable patterns and risks: While the predominant narrative is positive, reviews indicate variability in experience that may reflect inconsistent operational controls. Concerns include inconsistencies in staff conduct and managerial oversight, gaps in medication administration and documentation practices, and discontinuities during transitions or discharges. Additionally, there are isolated but serious allegations involving individual misconduct and financial or documentation irregularities; these accounts suggest the merit of further inquiry when considering placement.

    What prospective families should check: Given the mix of largely positive caregiving reports and isolated serious claims, families should confirm specific operational safeguards during a tour—ask about medication-administration policies, incident-reporting procedures, discharge-planning protocols, staffing stability, and how language needs are supported. Observing a meal service and an activity session, and requesting recent examples of how management handled adverse events, can help assess consistency between the facility’s strengths and the areas of operational concern noted above.

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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

    Laurel Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is located at 1020 Oak Lane Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19126.

    About Laurel Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

    Laurel Square Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center is an 87-bed subacute rehab and skilled nursing facility, where most days you'll find about 77 residents going about their routines and the staff trying their best to keep everyone comfortable and active, and while people have said the place feels warm and homelike and that it's good for both short-term rehab and longer care stays, there have been some problems reported, like issues with ostomy care and keeping medical equipment running safely, so that's important to note. This place offers skilled nursing care 24/7, and the staff provides around 3.88 nurse hours for each resident every day, but with a nurse turnover rate of 32.9%, sometimes you'll see new faces taking care of folks, and that can be a challenge when it comes to building trust and making sure care plans are followed the same way every time. Laurel Square has all sorts of therapy options-physical, speech, occupational, and respiratory therapies-plus programs for complex wound care, post-hospital recovery, restraint reduction, rehab dining, specialized colostomy and urostomy care, and intensive orthopedic rehabilitation, so seniors who need extra support after a hospital stay can find what they need here. Residents can join in for recreation activities, educational and entertaining events that help them socialize and make friends, and there are some modern features meant to keep people comfortable and help them feel more at home, like restaurant-style dining and family involvement in the care process. The ownership mainly belongs to Meir Gelley, with Sheldon Braun and Leah Gelley holding smaller shares, and Nationwide Healthcare Services manages the place along with Sheldon Braun since October 2015, so there's some stability in how things are run. Infection control measures are in place to help keep people healthy, and the therapists use advanced equipment for rehabilitation, which is important for those who need intense therapy and support. While some folks have mentioned the caring staff and homelike setting, families might want to be aware of the reported deficiencies and turnover, but for those needing a smaller center focused on rehab, wound management, and personalized care plans, Laurel Square can provide those services in a close-knit community environment.

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