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Alpine Terrace

Nursing Home

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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746 Alpine Dr,
Kerrville TX 78028

(830) 896-2323

66% estimated occupancy ¹

Alpine Terrace is one of only three facilities located in Kerrville, Texas. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. Unfortunately, the city grade for Kerrville isn't too much better. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Dialysis Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Amputee Recovery
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Radiation Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that area. Sadly, this ended up being one of its better features. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

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Long-term Care Quality

Tragically, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Nurse Quality

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home did not perform very well here either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. When computing our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Alpine Terrace Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Alpine Terrace, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Alpine Terrace, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Alpine Terrace, 1.79% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents who had UTI's. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare between facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Alpine Terrace, 5.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Alpine Terrace, 43.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Alpine Terrace, 6.96% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Alpine Terrace, 100% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Alpine Terrace, 10.89% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Alpine Terrace, 15.45% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Alpine Terrace, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Alpine Terrace, 15.45% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Alpine Terrace, 8.13% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Alpine Terrace, 72.15% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Peterson Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.79 miles away551 Hill Country Drive Kerrville Texas 78028Voluntary non-profit - Private(830) 896-4200
Hill Country Memorial Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 19.4 miles away1020 South State Highway 16 Fredericksburg Texas 78624Voluntary non-profit - Private(830) 997-4353