Beaver County

Friendship Rehab and Health

Special Focus Facility candidateCarries Medicare’s abuse warning icon
Medicare rating
1 out of 5
9
findings of immediate jeopardy, the most serious kind
50%
less nursing care than its residents are expected to need, against a research benchmark
$234,389
in federal fines recorded since 2024

Medicare’s overall rating for this home. The inspection part of it is graded on a curve against other Pennsylvania homes, so a star here does not mean what it means in another state.

246 Friendship Circle, Beaver, PA 15009 · (724) 775-7100
589 beds · about 305 residents on a typical day · for-profit limited liability company

Staffing

All nursing staff, per resident, per day
2 hours 24 minutes

Residents here are expected to need about 4 hours 45 minutes, given how sick they are. This home reports 50% less. The average Pennsylvania home reports 3 hours 53 minutes.

Registered nurses only
34 minutes

Registered nurses have the most training of the nursing staff on a shift. Residents here are expected to need about 1 hour 7 minutes of their time. This home reports 48% less.

Nursing staff who left in the past year
66%

66% of the nursing staff left within a year. High turnover means the people caring for your family member keep changing. The average Pennsylvania home reports 45%.

Where the benchmark comes from

Staffing is the measure most closely linked to how residents do, and the one families almost never see. How much nursing care a resident needs depends on how sick they are, so we compare this home against the level its own residents are expected to need. The marker on the first two bars shows that level. It is a research benchmark, not a legal limit. The hours shown are the hours the home filed with Medicare, before any adjustment for how sick its residents are.

What inspectors found

Inspectors visit every nursing home and write up what they find. This home has 176 findings on record going back to 2023, 92 of them after someone filed a complaint.

The 10 serious findings here

Actual harm April 30, 2026 From a complaint

Resident not protected from abuse or neglect

The home did not protect a resident from abuse or neglect by anyone.

The home fixed this on May 27, 2026.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F600Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.

Immediate jeopardy December 5, 2025 From a complaint

Accidents and supervision

The home did not keep the building free of hazards, or did not supervise a resident closely enough to prevent an accident.

The home had already fixed this before inspectors arrived.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Immediate jeopardy August 7, 2025 From a complaint

Accidents and supervision

The home did not keep the building free of hazards, or did not supervise a resident closely enough to prevent an accident.

The home had already fixed this before inspectors arrived.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Immediate jeopardy February 14, 2025 From a complaint

Accidents and supervision

The home did not keep the building free of hazards, or did not supervise a resident closely enough to prevent an accident.

The home fixed this on March 13, 2025.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Immediate jeopardy February 14, 2025

Staff lacked skills

The home did not make sure its nurses and aides had the skills needed to care for its residents.

The home fixed this on March 13, 2025.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F726Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.

Immediate jeopardy July 2, 2024 From a complaint

Food safety

Food was not stored, prepared, or served safely.

The home fixed this on August 2, 2024.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F812Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Immediate jeopardy July 2, 2024 From a complaint

Rules or licensing not met

The home did not follow the licensing rules, laws, or professional standards it must meet.

The home fixed this on August 2, 2024.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F836Ensure the facility is licensed under applicable State and local law and operates and provides services in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and codes, and with accepted professional standards.

Immediate jeopardy March 13, 2024

CPR rules not met

The home did not provide basic life support, including CPR, before emergency responders arrived, where the resident’s own doctor’s orders and advance directives called for it.

The home fixed this on May 8, 2024.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F678Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel, subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.

Immediate jeopardy March 13, 2024

Accidents and supervision

The home did not keep the building free of hazards, or did not supervise a resident closely enough to prevent an accident.

The home fixed this on May 8, 2024.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Immediate jeopardy March 13, 2024

Quality of care

A resident did not get treatment and care that followed their orders, their own preferences and their goals.

The home fixed this on May 8, 2024.

Medicare’s wording

Federal tag F684Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

Everything on record

Immediate jeopardy 9 Has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment or death
Actual harm 1 A resident was hurt
Potential for harm 164 Could have caused harm. No one was hurt. The most common kind.
No harm2Rule was broken but no resident was put at risk. Usually paperwork or procedure.

655 of the 656 nursing homes in Pennsylvania have fewer findings of harm or immediate jeopardy on record than this one.

Medicare has blocked payment for new admissions at this home 2 times, for 79 days in total. The most recent block lasted 56 days and started March 26, 2025.

What these levels mean

Immediate jeopardy The most serious finding there is. Medicare’s words: noncompliance that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment, or death. About 2 in every 100 findings nationally.

Actual harm A resident was really hurt, not just put at risk. About 3 in every 100 findings.

The letter is Medicare’s own code for how many residents were involved. Immediate jeopardy covers J, K and L. Actual harm covers G, H and I. The later the letter, the more residents were affected.

The plain-English line under each finding describes the rule the inspector cited. It is not an account of what happened. Medicare’s own wording of the rule is printed with it, and the full inspection report is the record of the incident.

This home has 6 findings under three federal tags that are counted together, and they do not all mean abuse: F600 is abuse or neglect, F602 is the wrongful use of a resident’s belongings or money, and F603 is involuntary seclusion. Medicare also publishes a separate abuse warning icon, which is narrower and time-limited, and this home also carries it.

What you can do

Numbers only go so far. These are two things most families do not know they can do.

Ask for today’s staffing sheet

Every nursing home must post how many nurses are working each shift, keep 18 months of it, and show it to you on request. Ask for today’s, then last Saturday’s. Weekends are when staffing thins out.

Call the ombudsman before you decide

Every state has a free, confidential long-term care ombudsman. You can ask how many complaints a specific home has had and what they were about. You can find your state’s office through its department of aging.

Where this comes from

Inspection findings, staffing hours, fines and star ratings on this page are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency, and are current as of August 1, 2026. We reload after each monthly release, and the footer of every page shows both the release date and the date we loaded it. The federal ID for this home is 395015.

What these numbers do not say

Fines can be appealed and reduced. The amount shown is what CMS had recorded as of this release. Medicare’s penalties file covers a rolling window of the last few years rather than a home’s whole history, so this is what Medicare publishes today and not everything this home has ever been fined. The year beside the figure above is the earliest fine Medicare still lists for it.

The level of care residents here are expected to need, and the gap, are not Medicare figures. We work them out from this home’s own Medicare case-mix score using the published CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is a research benchmark, not a legal limit.

Inspection findings are recorded by state inspectors on behalf of Medicare. Staffing hours come from payroll records the home files with Medicare, and Medicare audits a sample of them. Star ratings partly reflect quality measures the home reports about itself, which is why we show inspections and staffing separately rather than only the star.