Cornerstone Rehab & Hc

Even though this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. We gave it a C for this category. Our nursing rating weighs many subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a C for our long-term care rating, which really isn't a bad grade. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 61.271675 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. Inspection scores weigh many items on the facility's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility had 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 24 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Our short-term care ratings are likely more critical for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its weak score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.