Clara Baldwin Stocker Home

This nursing home earned a nursing score which is stronger than its overall score. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing grade weighs several subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents even once per day.

This facility's long-term care grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is considered to be a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at is inspections. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. This facility received a C in this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent danger to resident safety or health. We did not find anything on this place's inspection reports to be overly alarming.