Stonecreek Health and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall score was terrible, it actually fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its second most respectable score. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 89.007095 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. This facility's received a rock-bottom short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. With its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we analyzed is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor score. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.