Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil is in Temple, Texas. The city has 72,710 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of A+, resulting in it being the number one rated nursing home in Temple. We really can't say enough favorable things about this nursing home. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable report card is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home was given an excellent long-term care rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. 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 only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil, 11.91 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil, 66.29% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Temple, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Temple, Texas has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White Clinic - TempleAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away2401 S 31st St Temple Texas 76508Voluntary non-profit - Private(254) 724-2111
- Seton Medical Center Harker HeightsAcute Care Hospitals 18.95 miles away850 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Proprietary(254) 953-8342
Nearby Dialysis
- Scott & White Artifical Kidney Unit0.89 miles away2601 Thorton Lane Temple Texas 76508CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 56 (254) 935-5888
- Temple Kidney Center2.24 miles away2915 Saulsbury Temple Texas 76504Dialysis Stations: 17 (254) 742-1162
- Fresenius Medical Care Harker Heights18.91 miles away625 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Dialysis Stations: 20 (254) 690-0613