Baytown Nursing & Rehab Center

Although we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable grades in that area with a B. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that have a long list of deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care, but it still earned a grade of just D in that area. This ended up being a well below average score. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. With a grade in this range for this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in the two key staffing areas we assess. It supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

This facility's second least favorable category is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The last area we assessed was nursing. It received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are with patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.