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Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home

  • Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B
Oct 18: DNov 18: DDec 18: DJan 19: DFeb 19: DMay 19: DJun 19: DJul 19: DAug 19: CSep 19: CJan 20: CMar 20: CApr 20: CMay 20: CJun 20: CJul 20: CAug 20: CSep 20: B-Oct 20: BJan 21: B+Feb 21: B+Mar 21: B+Apr 21: B+May 21: B+Jun 21: B+Jul 21: B+Aug 21: B+Sep 21: B+Oct 21: B+Nov 21: B+Jan 22: B+Feb 22: B+Mar 22: B+Apr 22: B+May 22: B+Jun 22: B
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Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home's website

9650 Kenworthy St,
El Paso TX 79924

(915) 751-0967

82.56% estimated occupancy 1

Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home is a large government-owned facility in El Paso, Texas. Sporting an overall score of B, this appears to be a good facility. This is one of the three best facilities in the city. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • Government - State
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in this category, with an A+. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Another strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In this area, we awarded this facility a B. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing scores are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The last category we scored was long-term care. This facility was given a grade of C for this area. Long-term care ratings are based on the facility's volume of nursing services. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.40638 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Jul 22

Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 7.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 3.28% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a fall leading to serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 1.64% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 11.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 22.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 4.66% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. High rates of depression may be an indicator a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 94.73% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 17.29% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 18.08% Percentage of Residents

This is the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 1.58 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 18.08 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 11.87 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home, 66.73% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living typically correlates with better rehabilitation services.

Scores for El Paso, TX

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of D
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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Nearby Dialysis

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=676060