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Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare

  • Nursing Home

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare's website

510 Paredes Line Rd,
Brownsville TX 78521

(956) 546-5358

87.9% estimated occupancy 1

Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare is an average-sized nursing home in Brownsville, Texas. This nursing home proved to be a middle of the road facility, with an overall grade of B-. At the end of the day, this place should be a good fit for quite a few people. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its stellar inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Lymphedema Care

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better scores. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Sadly, this facility's third highest category is short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. In our short-term care grade, we strive to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

The last area we analyzed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our nursing category, leaving this as its weakest category grade. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18May 23

Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 7.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 3.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 1.52% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 10.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 22.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 4.84% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 93.69% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 17.58% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: D

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 13.47% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Many would argue that mobility is important for patients mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 1.89 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 13.47 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 11.91 Percentage of Patients

Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-plus

In Alta Vista Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 66.29% Percentage of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Valley Baptist Medical Center- BrownsvilleAcute Care Hospitals 1.67 miles away1040 W Jefferson St Brownsville Texas 78520Proprietary(956) 544-1400
  • Harlingen Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.47 miles away5501 South Expressway 77 Harlingen Texas 78550Proprietary(956) 365-1000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Medical Care South Price0.34 miles away64 S Price Rd Suite B Brownsville Texas 78521Dialysis Stations: 36 (956) 544-0711
  • Fort Brown Dialysis0.55 miles away2000 Boca Chica Blvd Brownsville Texas 78521Dialysis Stations: 13 (956) 544-1158
  • Fmc Dialysis Services of North Brownsville1.25 miles away1900 N. Expressway, Suite E Brownsville Texas 78521CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (956) 504-5045
  • Valley Hemodialysis Center1.27 miles away2600 N Coria Brownsville Texas 78520CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (956) 546-3738
  • Nri Brownsville1.62 miles away2945 Central Blvd Brownsville Texas 78520CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (956) 542-8094
  • Us Renal Care San Benito Dialysis16.12 miles away910 North Mccullough Street San Benito Texas 78586CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (956) 399-4037
  • Treasure Hills Dialysis19.93 miles away1629 Treasure Hills Blvd Suite 8 Harlingen Texas 78550Dialysis Stations: 13 (956) 364-2120
  • Fmc Harlingen19.94 miles away1653 Treasure Hills Blvd. Harlingen Texas 78552Dialysis Stations: 12 (956) 412-1097

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=455625