York General Hearthstone is a skilled nursing and long-term care community in York, Nebraska, licensed for up to 127 residents. It is Medicare and Medicaid certified and operated as a nonprofit corporation. The community is a five-star rated facility according to CMS, offering 24-hour staffing, on-site nursing, private rooms with private bathrooms, a restaurant-style dining room, physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, social activities, and housekeeping and laundry services.
The facility also operates a Medicare-certified home health agency established in 2012, providing skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and home health aide visits. The home health agency holds a CMS quality rating of 3.0 of 5 stars.
Reviews of the skilled nursing facility are mixed. Some reviewers praise the therapy department and nursing staff for attentive, compassionate care that supported recovery and return to independent living. Others describe concerns about staffing levels, monitoring of residents with dementia, and staff competence. One reviewer wrote that staff "take your time to restate things we say, explain things over and over," while another family expressed they would not recommend the facility based on their experience.