Avalon Place Kirbyville

Even though this nursing home's overall score was as bad as it gets, it surprisingly fared well in long-term care. In fact, we gave it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. This is one of the only good things we can say about this nursing home. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 89.3401 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually ended up being its second most respectable category. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When computing our nursing grades, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This particular place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's inspection reports. We weight poor inspection scores heavily in our assessment. Since the inspection reports are completed by independent government inspectors, we consider this information to be very reliable. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.