Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home

Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home is on a list of 20 facilities in El Paso, Texas. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is likely a decent facility. Based on the data we reviewed, there are certainly far worse facilities out there. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A+. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.73971 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing grades are primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this facility has earned respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is certainly a significant concern. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 20.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.