Bluebonnet Nursing and Rehabilitation

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A+. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B-. In computing our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provides only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. With our long-term care rating, we assess the sheer quantity of services provided by a nursing home, along with some qualitative metrics. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.393936 percent of its patients. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we rated was short-term care, proved to be this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. This really was one of the couple of dings on a very solid report card. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most critical for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility offers less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.