Stoneridge Towne Center

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A+ in this area. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility's long-term care score appears to be one of its best scores. The nursing home received a B- in this category. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 97.27627 percent of its residents, which is a very solid datapoint. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The last area we scored is short-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 3.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.