Stanleytown Health and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also performed well in the area of short-term care, with top notch grade of A- in this area. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. We assessed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. It received a lowly F in this area. Even with several acceptable scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.25843 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.