Ballinger Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also received a favorable long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B in this area, which is one of our better. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 60.869568 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 facility 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 by having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received a grade of C for this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.