Stonecrest Healthcare

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this area. As it turns out, this proved to be one of its better grades. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.08613 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

In our next category, we gave this facility an F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The next category we rated was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. Nursing grades are primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.