Cornerstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is definitely a good sign for this nursing home.

This nursing home's second best area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. In forming our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. The nursing category consists of several components, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

The final category we scored is long-term care, which ended up being a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in long-term care. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.89299 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.