Cornerstone Villa

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also performed well in long-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.29578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing score is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ for this area. This topped off a first-rate profile. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.