Cornerstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. You really can not go wrong with a deficiency-free inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this facility also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. 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 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.96373 percent of its patients. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the final area, this facility was awarded a decent nursing grade of B-. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more often.