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.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 75.60976 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility earned a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that area with a F. The nursing grade assesses a handful of datapoints, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

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.