Cornerstone Village

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

This facility also didn't rate too badly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a C for that area, which is among its more favorable grades. Long-term care grades are based on the facility's volume of nursing care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.61686 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also didn't perform poorly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which happens to be among its more favorable scores. In crafting our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home did not perform very well in this category either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. There are several subcategories included in this category. Most of the criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.