LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG
LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG is a 89-bed nursing home in HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pennsylvania. CMS has certified it for Medicare and Medicaid since 1979-06-01. It averages 41.2 residents a day.
What harm was found in the violations cited at LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG?
CMS lists 40 health-inspection deficiencies for LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG, all of them in the three years to 2026-08-01: the highest scope-and-severity letter on record is G; the most recent health inspection was 2026-06-18.
| Survey date | Tag | Deficiency | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-18 | F0689 | Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | D |
| 2025-12-10 | F0655, F0684, F0686, F0730, F0760, F0812, F0941, F0942, F0943, F0944, F0945, F0946, F0947, F0949 | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. / Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. / Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members. / Ensure that staff members are educated on resident rights and facility responsibilities to properly care for its residents. / Give their staff education on dementia care, and what abuse, neglect, and exploitation are; and how to report abuse, neglect, and exploitation. / Conduct mandatory training, for all staff, on the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program. / Include as part of its infection prevention and control program, mandatory training that includes written standards, policies, and procedures for the program. / Provide training in compliance and ethics. / Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. / Provide behavior health training consistent with the requirements and as determined by a facility assessment. | D |
| 2024-09-12 | F0623, F0657, F0689, F0842, F0867 | Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. / Set up an ongoing quality assessment and assurance group to review quality deficiencies and develop corrective plans of action. | E |
| 2024-09-12 | F0578, F0656, F0676, F0684, F0686, F0690, F0692, F0729, F0755, F0761, F0770, F0880 | Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. / Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. / Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. / Verify that a nurse aide has been trained; and if they haven't worked as a nurse aide for 2 years, receive retraining. / Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. / Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. / Provide timely, quality laboratory services/tests to meet the needs of residents. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. | D |
| 2024-06-25 | F0600 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | G |
| 2023-10-12 | F0600 | Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. | G |
| 2023-10-12 | F0657, F0758, F0761, F0842 | Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. / Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. | E |
| 2023-10-12 | F0656, F0689 | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. | D |
Why was LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG fined 2 times?
| Date | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-25 | Fine | $11,132 |
| 2023-10-12 | Fine | $90,773 |
How is LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG staffed?
| Measure | This facility | PA average |
|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing hours per resident per day | 4.15711 | 3.88823 |
| Total nursing staff turnover (%) | 48.2 | 44.5 |
| Average number of residents per day | 41.2 | 104.6 |
Who owns LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG?
LUTHERAN HOME AT HOLLIDAYSBURG is registered with CMS as Non profit - Church related, operates under the legal business name ALLEGHENY LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC.
| Role | Owner | Association date |
|---|---|---|
| W-2 MANAGING EMPLOYEE | EVANS, CHAD, REIGHARD, CHRISTOPHER, SAVAGE, PATRICIA | since 01/26/1996 |
| CORPORATE OFFICER | BOWERSOX, EDWARD, BRADLEY, THOMAS, BRENNEMAN, HELEN, COBAUGH, DAVID, FREDERICK, CAROL, GLEN, SUZANNE, LLOYD, WILLIAM, MEARKLE, AMY, MILLER, JOHN, REIGHARD, CHRISTOPHER, RHYNE, MICHAEL, SAVAGE, PATRICIA, SMITH, ELAINE, THOMPSON, WILLIAM, WHIPKEY, RICHARD, WILLIAMSON, SUSAN | since 01/01/2010 |
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