Life Care Center of Stonegate

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A+. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. Our nursing rating weighs a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning the page to our next category, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a dominant score. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 76.92307 percent of its residents for pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Finishing off this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. With this score, the facility completes its straight A report card. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.