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Wesley Village

209 Roberts Road, Pittston, PA 18640 · 160 beds · Non profit - Corporation

The records flag: 1 citation at the most serious level.

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Medicare overall rating
★★★★★
Average · 3 of 5
All nursing staff, hours / resident
4.01
RNs, LPNs and aides · state average 3.94
Weekend RN coverage
−38%
vs weekdays
Staff turnover
48%
state average 45%
1 citation at the most serious level
Inspectors judged that residents were placed in danger of serious injury or death. See the inspection section for dates and whether each was corrected.

These are drawn straight from Medicare's records. We report what the record says — we don't rate facilities or judge the care given in them.

Who's actually on the floor

Staffing is the thing most closely tied to day-to-day quality of care, and it's the number families most often never see. This is registered nurses only — a smaller figure than the all-staff total above, because it counts the most highly qualified staff on their own — per resident, per day, comparing an average weekday against an average weekend.

Weekdays
0.73 hrs
Weekends
0.45 hrs
PA average
0.80 hrs

Registered nurses only — hours per resident per day. Longer is better.

Registered nurse coverage drops about 38% at weekends.

Staff turnover: 48%

High turnover matters because continuity does — a nurse who knows your mother notices when something is different about her. Someone on their second shift doesn't have that baseline.

What inspectors found

State inspectors visit at least once a year and after complaints. Over the last three years this facility received 29 citations. Raw counts mislead, though — a paperwork slip and a resident being harmed both count as one. Here they are by how serious inspectors judged them.

SeverityCitations
Immediate jeopardy
Residents placed at risk of serious injury or death
1
Potential for harm
No one harmed yet, but conditions could allow it
24
No harm
Rule and paperwork findings
4

5 of these came from someone filing a complaint rather than a routine visit — worth weighing differently, because it means a person picked up the phone. All findings are recorded as corrected.

Medicare has issued $8,021 in fines here over the past three years.

What happened to residents

Everything above this point describes how the facility is run — who is on shift, what inspectors found. These are outcomes: what Medicare recorded happening to the people actually living there, averaged over a year and set against the state.

Over a year, the share of long-stay residents who… HerePennsylvania
Falls causing major injury 4.5% 3.1%
Pressure ulcers (bedsores) 4.7% 4.8%
Given antipsychotic medication 8.6% 17.7%
Physically restrained 0.0% 0.2%
Urinary tract infections 2.4% 1.5%
Lost the ability to walk unaided 30.8% 17.0%

Lower is better on every line. Covers 2025Q2-2026Q1.

Medicare adjusts these figures for how unwell residents were on arrival, so a home that takes on frailer people is not marked down for it. That adjustment is imperfect where a facility's residents are unusual, which is why the state figure sits beside each number instead of a rank or a score.

Where too few residents met the criteria for a measure to be published reliably, Medicare withholds it and it shows here as not reported.

Disclosed affiliations

Medicare requires every facility to disclose the people and companies connected to it. Most names below are not owners — they are officers, directors, managers, trustees, and what Medicare calls “additional disclosable parties.” The role beside each name is the one Medicare recorded. This is worth reading because operators tend to run their facilities alike: where the same group stands behind a dozen homes, the record across all twelve tells you more than any single inspection does.

NameRole recorded by MedicareSince
Balwierczak, Morgan Corporate officer, Operational or managerial control 08/01/2025
Umh Pa Corp Operational or managerial control 05/23/2007
Valenti, Samuel Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 07/01/2023
Yashinsky, Eric Operational or managerial control, Additional disclosable party 01/01/2024
Augustine, Emil Corporate director 05/31/2017
Betz, Edwin Corporate director 05/28/2003
Byrne Colling, Kathleen Corporate director 08/27/2014
Dirhan, Coleman Corporate director 01/01/2024
Grillini, Catherine Corporate director 01/01/2024
Hertel, Alan Corporate director 01/29/2020
Horn, Janice Corporate director 01/01/2024
Johnson, Maryann Corporate director 05/25/2011
Kinsman, Allan Corporate director 05/23/2002
Lamantia, Salvatore Corporate director 10/03/2017
Lee, Lisa Corporate director 05/26/2016
Lewis, Sharron Corporate director 08/31/2016
Lewis, William Corporate director 01/01/2024
Mulligan, Roseanne Corporate director 08/27/2014
Olaviany, Tanya Corporate director 01/01/2024
Picchini, Brian Corporate officer 01/01/2012
Ray, Margaret Corporate director 08/29/2018
Reid, Philip Corporate director 05/26/2016
Smith, Blenda Corporate director 11/19/2014
Starr, William Corporate director 05/31/2017
Testa, Kendra Corporate director 01/01/2024
Thomas, Charlotte Corporate director 05/30/2018

Of the 26 parties disclosed here, 0 hold an ownership interest; the rest are recorded in a management, officer, financial, or other disclosable capacity. A percentage is shown only where Medicare published one — for most disclosed parties it publishes none.

Other options nearby

Most families are choosing between whatever is close enough to visit often — and visiting often is itself one of the better protections a resident has. These are the closest 8 facilities.

FacilityMilesRating Nurse hrsWeekend
Embassy of East Mountain
Wilkes-Barre
2.5 1 0.54 −33%
Highland Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Exeter
2.7 2 0.58 −45%
Third Avenue Health & Rehab Center
Kingston
4.1 4 0.82 −37%
Heinz Transitional Rehabilitation Unit
Wilkes-Barre
4.1 5 1.79 −32%
Riverstreet Manor
Wilkes-Barre
4.1 2 0.70 −46%
Maple Ridge Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center
Kingston
4.2 3 0.41 −15%
Edenbrook on Second Ave
Kingston
4.6 1 0.39 −46%
Embassy of Wyoming Valley
Wilkes Barre
4.9 2 0.68 −33%

Weekend column shows the change in registered-nurse coverage at weekends compared with weekdays.

Worth asking on a visit

Records only tell you so much. These are the questions this facility's particular numbers suggest you ask — go on a weekend if you possibly can.

  1. Can I visit on a Sunday rather than a weekday? How many registered nurses are on duty then, and for how many residents?
  2. Turnover here is about 48%. How long has the director of nursing been in post?
  3. Medicare's records show a citation at the most serious level. What happened, and what changed afterwards?
  4. Who will actually be caring for my relative at 3am on a Saturday — an agency nurse or someone on staff?

Where these numbers come from

All figures are published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Different measures cover different periods — some are considerably older than others, so each is dated separately below rather than under one "last updated" stamp.

Ratings & staffing
Staffing hours Jan–Mar 2026; staff turnover calendar year 2025
Inspections & citations
Aug 2023–Jul 2026
Fines & penalties
Aug 2023–Jul 2026
Ownership
Current in the August 2026 CMS file
File release
August 2026

We report what the records say and don't draw conclusions about care quality. If you believe something on this page is wrong — email a correction. It reaches a person, not a form. We check every report, fix what is wrong, and say so on the page; see how we handle corrections. If you work at this facility and our figures disagree with your own records, we want to hear that too.