Stonegate Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this nursing home a respectable score in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home received a grade of C for long-term care, which is a respectable grade. Our long-term care scores are based in part on the facility's volume of nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.53271 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.