Cornerstone Retirement Community

Cornerstone Retirement Community is a facility located in Texarkana, Texas, a city with a population of 60,677 people. With an overall rating of A, this is clearly a first-rate nursing home. Without a surplus of quality nursing homes in Texarkana, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home proved to be substantially better than virtually all of the nursing homes in the city. As you will see below, this place also performed well in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. This nursing home's vaccination statistics weren't as favorable some of its other datapoints in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 62.931034 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement in this area next year. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.87 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of patients.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a strong score of A in our short-term care area. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Texas in this area with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility offers an impressive 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is among the higher totals in Texas. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the state.

Adding to its other impressive category grades, we awarded this facility a B+ for its inspection rating. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.