Apex Secure Care Brownfield

Although this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it earned a very good grade in long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better grades. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 57.089554 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We actually gave this facility a very solid grade in the area of inspections as well. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. When calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home offered a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in this category. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With a score of this caliber in this category, we were not stunned to learn this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.