Hearthstone Place

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.8022 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. The nursing grade consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below average. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The final area we scored was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is often a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.