Accura Healthcare of Stanton

To pair with a strong overall grade, we gave this place a grade of A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 92.95775 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Fortunately, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade weighs quite a few components, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

The last category we graded was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade in this area, with a C. Although this is not as favorable as some of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not the end of the world. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 40.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.