Hickory House Nursing Home

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Hickory House Nursing Home says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Nurse on site: 24 hours a day. Focusing on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, Hickory House Nursing Home offers therapy seven days per week, as well as state-of-the-art therapy equipment such as VitalStim (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Provides transportation. Transportation services (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
• Smoke-free. Non-smoking facility (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• May 12, 2022: follow-up inspection, partial (health). Case closed Aug 30, 2024. 1 violation cited (1 serious). Penalties: $10,256 proposed, $7,179 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Honey Brook Medical Investors Limited Partnership. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
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  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $10,256 proposed, $7,179 now. To be fixed by Dec 8, 2022.
• Dec 21, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, complete (health). Case closed Jun 7, 2023. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Honey Brook Medical Investors Limited Partnership. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
• Jun 4, 2020: fatality or catastrophe inspection, partial (safety). Case closed Dec 31, 2024. 2 violations cited (2 serious). Penalties: $12,145 proposed, $12,145 now. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Honey Brook Medical Investors Limited Partnership. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.
  Details

  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(e)(1)). Penalty $12,145 proposed, $12,145 now. To be fixed by Feb 9, 2021.
  • Serious: Respiratory protection (respirators, N95 fit testing) (1910.134(f)(2)). Penalty $0 proposed, $0 now. To be fixed by Feb 9, 2021.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Chester County Hospital, West Chester. 15.7 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 5 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Tel Hai Retirement Community, Honey Brook. 1.7 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Home Care For The 21St Century - Chester, Coatesville. 6.0 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Doug's Family Pharmacy. 5.4 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 19344 as metropolitan (metropolitan high commuting).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Usrc Coatesville Dialysis, Coatesville, 6.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Coatesville Dialysis, Coatesville, 6.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Thorndale Dialysis, Thorndale, 8.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)

Hospice

15 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 19344.
Aseracare Hospice, office in Exton, 10.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Brandywine River Valley Hospice, office in West Grove, 17.7 miles away, straight line
Willow Tree Hospice, office in Kennett Square, 18.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

Tower Health Medical Group, West Reading. 18.0 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively high. By hazard: hurricane relatively high, inland flooding relatively high, wildfire very low, tornado relatively high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively moderate. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.