Cornerstone Gardens L is a facility located in Temple, Texas, a city with a total of 72,710 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires strong marks in most areas. In fact, we ranked this nursing home as the fourth best facility in Temple. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
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Cornerstone Gardens L
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
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- Dentistry
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so favorably is that it was given a dominant short-term care score. Indeed, short-term care turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the final area we looked at. In this area, we gave this facility a D. We wanted to draw your attention to this potential weak link, however, you shouldn't focus exclusively on one bad category either. Our nursing grade analyzes many components, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this facility also didn't perform as well as we hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed for this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cornerstone Gardens L Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 11.52% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 3.5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 0.8% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 9.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 28.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 10.57% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 99.66% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 16.76% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 13.57% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 13.57% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 10.01% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cornerstone Gardens L, 60.92% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Temple, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Temple, Texas has 9 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White Clinic - TempleAcute Care Hospitals 1.17 miles away2401 S 31st St Temple Texas 76508Voluntary non-profit - Private(254) 724-2111
- Seton Medical Center Harker HeightsAcute Care Hospitals 19.14 miles away850 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Proprietary(254) 953-8342
Nearby Dialysis
- Scott & White Artifical Kidney Unit1.36 miles away2601 Thorton Lane Temple Texas 76508CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 56 (254) 935-5888
- Temple Kidney Center3.4 miles away2915 Saulsbury Temple Texas 76504Dialysis Stations: 17 (254) 742-1162
- Fresenius Medical Care Harker Heights19.09 miles away625 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Dialysis Stations: 20 (254) 690-0613