Kittanning Health & Rehab Center in Kittanning, PA, offers a mix of care for seniors and those needing rehab, and you'll find it on a single floor with 120 beds, two covered patios, and flower spaces for enjoying a bit of quiet outside. This center focuses pretty strongly on health and rehabilitation, offering skilled nursing 24 hours a day, memory care, long-term care, assisted living, independent living, adult day services, hospice care, and even home health care when that's needed. Residents get help with things like cardiac care, stroke care, pain management, IV therapy, wound care, post-surgical recovery, pulmonary care, and congestive heart failure support, and there are special programs for memory care to keep folks safe and as comfortable as possible.
There're therapies too-physical, occupational, and speech therapy-plus programs to help folks prepare for surgery and get back home safely, like the Progressive Approach to Home (PATH) and an option to sign up ahead of time with their Pre-registration Program. Interdisciplinary teams work with doctors to design care plans, even before a resident is admitted, and the staff support rehab and recovery with pre-surgery exercises and tailored plans afterward. Short-term respite care is available when families need a break, and the place stays active with regular activities, meals that feel more like home, and holiday events.
Residents can use the spacious courtyards with flowers and enjoy a warm environment that aims to support everyone's well-being, and the building stays on one floor, making it easy to move about. Medicare and Medicaid are accepted, and the center is owned by Saber Healthcare Group.
However, this facility has a history of quality issues-state inspections have found 74 deficiencies in total, including seven for infection control, issues with resident rights, not acting fast enough to inform families or doctors of changes, failing to give ordered treatments, and some problems with medication errors; the nurse turnover rate is high at nearly 50%, and the center is a Special Focus Facility Candidate on government watch lists, though it's never been formally flagged. Nurse staffing averages about 3.36 hours per resident per day and the average daily census is 97 residents. Still, if someone needs a range of care options, skilled rehab, memory support, or just a comfortable place that tries to cover many needs, Kittanning Health & Rehab Center is one to consider, while keeping its history in mind.
