The Stewart Health Center

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+. Our nursing rating analyzes several datapoints, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning the page to our third category, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a first-rate grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.86096 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our next category, this facility also excelled in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A in that area. This rounded out a straight A report card. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.