Fonteum Care Compare · Pennsylvania · Scranton
Nursing homes in Scranton, Pennsylvania: 9 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Scranton — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Scranton: 3.3 / 5
How Scranton compares
Scranton vs the Pennsylvania state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.3
State avg 3.0 / 5
+0.3 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.9
State avg 3.1 / 5
+0.8 vs state
Facilities — this city
9
657 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 9 rated facilities above.
Where Scranton sits
All 9 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Scranton sit in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton Health Care Center
2933 Mccarthy Street · CCN 396095 · For profit - Corporation
44 certified beds · 40.5 avg daily residents · 3.60 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 21, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Allied Services Transitional Rehab Unit
475 Morgan Highway · CCN 396135 · Non profit - Corporation
51 certified beds · 25 avg daily residents · 6.28 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey December 11, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Gino J Merli Veterans Center
401 Penn Avenue · CCN 39A433 · Government - State
196 certified beds · 182.8 avg daily residents · 5.19 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey June 6, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Green Ridge Care Center
2741 Boulevard Avenue · CCN 395067 · For profit - Corporation
95 certified beds · 86.8 avg daily residents · 3.73 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey November 14, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
4 / 5
Health Insp.
Allied Services Skilled Nursing Center
303 Smallacombe Drive · CCN 396074 · Non profit - Corporation
327 certified beds · 275.9 avg daily residents · 4.40 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey July 18, 2025
4
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Marywood Heights
2500 Adams Avenue · CCN 395625 · For profit - Limited Liability company
72 certified beds · 69.5 avg daily residents · 4.05 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey May 8, 2025
3
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Elan Skilled Nursing And Rehab, A Jewish Senior Li
1101 Vine Street · CCN 395103 · Non profit - Corporation
145 certified beds · 133 avg daily residents · 4.40 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey November 21, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Embassy Of Scranton
824 Adams Avenue · CCN 395273 · For profit - Limited Liability company · SFF Candidate
139 certified beds · 89 avg daily residents · 3.48 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey July 25, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Linwood Nursing And Rehabilitation Center
100 Florida Avenue · CCN 395717 · Non profit - Corporation
102 certified beds · 92.7 avg daily residents · 3.63 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey May 21, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Pennsylvania cities with nursing homes
Compare Scranton with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.