The Springs at Stony Brook

The Springs at Stony Brook is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Louisville, Kentucky which has a population of 736,284 people. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this facility ended up being far superior to the vast majority of the nursing homes in Louisville. Even in a city of 43 nursing homes, this nursing home is a great option. As you can see below, this place performed equally well in our category ratings. In fact, we gave it straight A's!

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong profile, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in the area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered after this facility's impressive nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade weighs quite a few subcategories, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident each day, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this facility also fared well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is usually a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care and a policy of regularly moving residents to prevent bed sores.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home also performed well in the short-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A- in this area. This wrapped up a straight A profile. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. One of this facility's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it provides more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.