The Waters of Stamps

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing score exceeded its overall rating. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing score is based on several subcategories, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's inspection grade exceeded its overall score as well. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was given its next most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent grade. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Our final area is long-term care, where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this category. In determining our long-term care scores, we look at the assistance with daily living received by a facility's patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.