Atherton Baptist Home

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this area. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of B. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.67949 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our final category is short-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.