Focused Care at Stonebriar

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The second best category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. 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. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid figure. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next best category is short-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next area we graded was nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously concerning. Our nursing rating is based on several subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of its below average nursing hour totals, this facility also received suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's patients sustained falls which led to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing score.