Stanton Health Center

In addition to performing well in its overall score, this facility earned even higher grades in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility fared well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 88.888885 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of B in this category. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In the final category we looked at, we found that this nursing home received a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It received a decent score in inspections with a B. This facility really didn't have any major weaknesses. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.