Coronado at Stone Oak

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility was given its third best category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is an acceptable score. In the category of long-term care, we analyze the amount of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we looked at was nursing, ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of the nurses. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.