Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Medicare-certified265 SOUTH MCKEAN STREET, Kittanning, PA 16201
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Kittanning Health & Rehab Center provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation care designed to help patients regain independence and return home. Our Pennsylvania team combines medical expertise with compassionate support, offering personalized recovery plans in a setting focused on your loved one's healing and dignity.
Capacity
119 residents
Location
Kittanning, PA
Status
Listed in a public registry
120 KITTANNING CARE DRIVE, Kittanning, Pennsylvania 16201
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 January 9, 2026, state inspectors cited 31 health deficiencies (the Pennsylvania average is 10.0).
Nurses and nurse aides spend 3 hours 39 minutes with each resident a day, below the Pennsylvania average of 3 hours 53 minutes.
Medicare fined Kittanning Health & Rehab Center 3 times in the last three years, $130,873 in total.
| Measure | This home |
|---|---|
| Nurse and aide time per resident, per day | 3 hours 39 minutesBelow the Pennsylvania average |
| Registered nurse time per resident, per day | 38 minutesBelow the Pennsylvania average |
| Nursing staff who left in the past year | 63%Above the Pennsylvania average |
95 health citations in the last three years. Each one is a federal standard inspectors found the home was not meeting.
January 9, 2026 · Standard inspection · 29 citations
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.
Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death.
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Educate residents and staff on COVID-19 vaccination, offer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents and staff after education, and properly document each resident and staff member's vaccination status.
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason.
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.
Post nurse staffing information every day.
November 18, 2025 · Complaint investigation · 2 citations
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
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.
Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.
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.
Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits.
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
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.
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
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.
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Provide activities to meet all resident's needs.
Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
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.
Showing the 60 most recent. The full list is on Medicare.gov.
3 fines totaling $130,873 and 1 Medicare payment denial in the last three years.
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State inspectors visited on January 9, 2026 and cited 31 health deficiencies, 4 of them from complaint investigations. The Pennsylvania average is 10.0.
Nurses and aides spend 3 hours 39 minutes with each resident per day, including 38 minutes from registered nurses. 63% of nursing staff left over the past year.
Yes. Medicare fined Kittanning Health & Rehab Center 3 times in the last three years, totaling $130,873.
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.