Stonespring of Vandalia

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A+ for this area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home performed well in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most dominant grades. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last area we rated was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D for long-term care, leaving this as the nursing home's weakest category. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.29825 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.