Brighton Cornerstone Group

Brighton Cornerstone Group is located in Madisonville, Kentucky. With an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. If you take a look at the other options in Madisonville, we are confident you will find this facility to be a better option than most nursing homes in the city. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Not many facilities fared better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.93814 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 3.25 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of residents.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing grade consists of several factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You should not necessarily disregard a nursing home as a result of a single poor score though. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. In this nursing home's case, it looks like it offers less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 27.9 percent of its patients returning home.