Clara Baldwin Stocker Home

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates it dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's rock-bottom short-term care score where it was given an F. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The final area we scored is nursing. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in this category. There are many factors within this grade. Many of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This particular place offered just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.