Cornerstone Rehab & Hc

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our nursing rating. There are several datapoints included in this area. Most of the criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care rating and that actually ended up being its next most favorable score. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 60.784313 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.

Another unfortunate development was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 29 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.