Hearthstone Nursing & Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in this area with an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack grade in the category of short-term care, with a B-. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

This nursing home's next best category was long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated just 80.28846 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Our final category is nursing, where we awarded this nursing home a C in that area. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.