Stonecreek Health and Rehabilitation
4747 Alben Barkley Drive, Paducah KY 42001 · (270) 444-9661 · 91.39% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Stonecreek Health and Rehabilitation is one of four nursing homes located in Paducah, Kentucky. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. Paducah received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth considering. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection rating. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 86 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall score, we gave it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest score was short-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 44.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
Our next area we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received an F. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility vaccinated just 52.07547 percent of its patients, which is well below average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 2.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having some more complicated patients. This is its best feature in this category
Nurse Quality
The final area we looked at was nursing. It received an F for this area, which is a poor score. Nursing grades are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Stonecreek Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better