Stonebrook Healthcare Center

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home also earned an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It doesn't look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next category we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in the category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a very favorable report card. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents more frequently.