Adams Street -a Stonebridge Community

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next highest category is short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. Our short-term care grades are vital for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we weren't surprised to discover this place was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded is long-term care, in which this facility received an abysmal grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously very concerning. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.354164 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.