Stanley Healthcare

This place really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this grade, this nursing home's overall score would have likely been worse. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an B+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

Turning to the next area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of short-term care. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Sadly, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is generally a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.