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Brookmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Effort, Pennsylvania provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation care focused on helping residents regain independence. Our team delivers compassionate support through recovery and ongoing health needs.
Capacity
119 residents
Location
Effort, PA
Status
Listed in a public registry
510 BROOKMONT DRIVE, Effort, Pennsylvania 18330
From CMS Care Compare, the federal record every Medicare-certified nursing home is held to. Data as of September 1, 2026. Check it on Medicare.gov
At its most recent standard inspection, on December 19, 2025, state inspectors cited 5 health deficiencies (the Pennsylvania average is 10.0).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 16 minutes with each resident a day, below the Pennsylvania average of 3 hours 53 minutes.
Medicare has not fined Brookmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in the last three years.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 16 minutesBelow the Pennsylvania average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 35 minutesBelow the Pennsylvania average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 55%Above the Pennsylvania average |
29 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
December 19, 2025 · Standard inspection · 5 citations
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
February 28, 2025 · Standard inspection · 3 citations
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
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.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
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.
Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides drinks consistent with resident needs and preferences and sufficient to maintain resident hydration.
The resident has the right to receive notices in a format and a language he or she understands.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
510 BROOKMONT DRIVEEffort, PA 18330
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State inspectors visited on December 19, 2025 and cited 5 health deficiencies. The Pennsylvania average is 10.0.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 16 minutes with each resident per day, including 35 minutes from registered nurses. 55% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Medicare's records show no fines against Brookmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in the last three years.
Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing per benefit period after a qualifying 3-day hospital stay — fully for the first 20 days, then with a daily copay. Long-term custodial stays are generally not covered.
A semi-private room averages about $7,900 per month nationally; private rooms cost more. Medicaid is the largest payer for long-term nursing home care.
Medicare rates nursing homes 1 to 5 stars on its Care Compare site. We don't repeat those stars here. Each nursing home page shows Medicare's underlying record instead: inspections, staffing and fines, with a link to check it on Medicare.gov.