Bastrop Nursing Center

Bastrop Nursing Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Bastrop, Texas. This nursing home received an overall score of F. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Surprisingly, we awarded this facility a grade of C for its long-term care score, which isn't a bad grade. Our long-term care scores are more important for residents requiring more traditional services related to personal care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 77.77778 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than average. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had a relatively high 3.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this nursing home in this area.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. There are several factors within this area. Many of these subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. On top of its weak nursing hour totals, this facility received poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's residents sustained falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing grade.

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the last category we scored. In this area, we awarded this facility a D. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly based on its score in this area, this place was well below average in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided far fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 35.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.