Stevens Park Health and Rehabilitation

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few places performed this well in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. We awarded them a strong strong of A- in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home was awarded impressive grades in the category of long-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our most dominant scores in that area with a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.91304 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients 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.

The final area we looked at is nursing. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. This proved to be this facility's least impressive category. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic.