StoneBridge Owensville

To pair with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than its overall rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's better category scores was in the area of long-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this facility a C. Our long-term care grade is used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home vaccinated only 68.55124 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an D. There are quite a few subcategories included in this category. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category. Even with some solid scores in other categories, this score is still of a concern so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With a score this poor for this area, we were not surprised to find that this place was below average in many staffing metrics we assess. The nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.1 percent of its residents returning home.