Stone Pear Pavilion

This facility really performed well in the area of long-term care, with an impressive grade of A- in this area. This really propped up its overall score quite a bit. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.79518 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections category. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility didn't fare well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is its poorest area. In forming these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.