Washington Rehab & Nursing Center

    36 Old Hickory Ridge Rd, Washington, PA 15301
    • 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

    3.48·(29)

    Overall rating

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

      2.7
    • Staff

      3.7
    • Meals

      4.7
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      4.7

    Pros

    • Compassionate and effective rehabilitation therapy
    • Attentive physical- and speech-therapy programs
    • On-site snack shop/cafe with high-quality offerings
    • Fresh, flavorful daily dining
    • Friendly and personable snack-shop staff
    • Engaging activities and social opportunities
    • Clean, inviting common areas in parts of the facility
    • Demonstrated mobility-improvement outcomes
    • Professional, respectful dining and service staff
    • Affordable meal and snack options

    Cons

    • Inconsistent nursing responsiveness and long call-response times
    • Incontinence-care delays and inconsistent bathing schedules
    • Gaps in wound-care and medication-management processes
    • Variable cleaning and sanitation practices
    • Weak transfer- and positioning-safety protocols
    • Staff inattentiveness during shifts and personal-device use
    • Greater variability in skilled-nursing quality versus rehab services
    • Limited after-hours staffing and unreliable on-call coverage
    • Poor communication and limited administrative accessibility
    • Inconsistent food-service temperature and meal delivery continuity

    Summary of reviews

    Overall assessment: Reviews describe a mixed performance profile. The facility receives consistent positive feedback for its rehabilitation services, on-site snack shop, and many dining experiences; at the same time, reviewers raise sustained operational concerns in the skilled-nursing areas that affect resident safety, hygiene, and family communication.

    Care quality: Rehabilitation and therapy services are a clear strength — families and former patients frequently note good progress in mobility and meaningful engagement with physical and speech therapy. Conversely, skilled-nursing care is described as uneven. Key operational issues include slow response times to call buttons, inconsistent personal-care routines (including bathing and incontinence-care follow-through), and lapses in wound-care and medication-management adherence. These patterns suggest variability in clinical oversight and handoff practices between shifts or units.

    Staff and conduct: Individual staff members, particularly therapists and snack-shop personnel, are often singled out as compassionate, helpful, and effective. However, reviewers also identify concerns about staff attentiveness, including use of personal devices during shifts and a perceived roughness or inconsistency in handling and positioning. Staffing behavior and responsiveness appear inconsistent across teams, contributing to divergent family experiences.

    Dining and activities: The on-site snack shop and many of the facility meals receive strong praise for taste, variety, and presentation; several comments name the snack-shop staff as a highlight. Activity programming and therapy-friendly engagement are also strengths noted by reviewers, with opportunities for social interaction and rehabilitation tied into daily routines. At the same time, there are intermittent complaints about meal temperature and occasional lapses in service continuity.

    Facilities and cleanliness: Observations about cleanliness and environment vary significantly. Some reviewers describe clean, inviting common areas and well-maintained dining spaces, while others raise sanitation concerns, odor issues, linen availability, and small bathroom sizes. These mixed observations point to inconsistent housekeeping and environmental-management practices across units or shifts.

    Management and communication: Families describe gaps in administrative accessibility and follow-up — limited callbacks, unclear communication about clinical changes, and constrained after-hours coverage. Several reviewers express difficulty reaching leadership or the director of nursing for timely clarification. These communication weaknesses amplify the impact of clinical and operational inconsistencies.

    Notable patterns and guidance: The pattern in reviews suggests a facility with clear strengths in rehabilitation, therapy engagement, and food-service offerings, alongside recurrent operational weaknesses in skilled nursing, environmental consistency, and management responsiveness. Prospective residents and families should prioritize an in-person visit, ask specific questions about call-response times, wound- and medication-management protocols, staffing ratios (including night and weekend coverage), infection-control and housekeeping schedules, and recent quality audits. Verifying current conditions and speaking with therapy staff, nursing leadership, and family members of current residents can help clarify whether documented concerns have been addressed.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

    Washington Rehab & Nursing Center is located at 36 Old Hickory Ridge Rd, Washington, PA, 15301.

    About Washington Rehab & Nursing Center

    Premier Washington Rehabilitation And Nursing Center sits at 36 Old Hickory Ridge Road in Washington, PA, offering both short-term rehab and long-term care in a 288-bed facility that sees about 261 residents a day and has nurses and therapists available all day and night, so help's never far away, though nurse staffing averages about 3.10 hours per resident a day, which is a bit below the state's average, and the nurse turnover rate stands higher than most, so you might see some new faces from time to time. The place handles everything from skilled nursing and memory care to palliative and respite care, with programs for Alzheimer's, stroke rehab, wound care, therapy, and other specialized medical needs like dialysis, cancer care, cardiac care, IV care, and more, making it a spot that takes you in for anything from a short stay after the hospital to ongoing care if you need lots of help with dressing, bathing, transfers, and medication.

    Residents live in furnished rooms with private bathrooms, kitchenettes, cable TV, phone lines, air conditioning, and fast Wi-Fi, and the dining room serves chef-prepared meals, including allergy-sensitive options, plus there's move-in help, housecleaning, laundry, and a concierge who'll help with day-to-day issues, making it feel a little more homelike, and there's a call system to get help any time, day or night. The facility has its own spa and wellness room, a fitness room where you can work out or do therapy if that's your thing, plus there's a theater, game room, arts room, a small library, and even a garden and walking paths outside for fresh air, and community spaces where daily activities or music take place, so you won't sit bored unless you really want to, and family support and councils aim to give both residents and loved ones a say about life and care here.

    There's onsite therapy for physical, speech, and occupational needs, tailored to personal goals whether it's regaining strength or getting back to daily life, and a team works together on care plans meant to fit what each person needs, whether you want to be more independent or just need comfort. For residents who can't get around on their own, the crew helps with getting in or out of bed, going to meals, keeping clean, and handling medicine, and there's a focus on supporting frail seniors or those who need advanced nursing care, especially in cases where rehab and non-ambulatory support is needed.

    The place is for-profit, owned by Washington Operating Holdings, Crestview 360 Holdings LLC, Crestview 720 Trust, and Yaakov Sod, with Jonathan Bleier and Yaakov Sod also having some control, and while the facility is clean, busy, and near local hospitals, there have been some issues during inspections-twenty-nine deficiencies in all, with some related to pharmacy practices, infection control standards not always followed, and food safety such as not always getting food from approved places or handling it right, so that's something families tend to look at carefully. The center does accept Medicare and Medicaid, and if you want, you can arrange a tour to get a better sense for what life's like here since it's been described as blending care and community, aiming for each resident to live their unique life with respect, dignity, and as much comfort as possible with various support structures in place from specialized care to scheduled and resident-run activities.

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