Birchwood Nursing and Rehabilitation

Birchwood Nursing and Rehabilitation is a facility in Cooper, Texas, which has 3,323 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of D. A score in this range generally indicates a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Cooper. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even with this deficiency, this place still received a relatively favorable report.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.77778 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. With only 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we scored was short-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal score. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, it looks like it offered less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 38 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.