Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital Skil

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given an A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. It fared as well as just about any facility in the nation with 71.5 percent of its patients returning home. Most places are below 50 percent in this metric.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This place provides an incredible 7.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the country in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

In the last area, this nursing home also received an excellent long-term care score, with an A. This rounded out a very impressive report card. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.