Bluebonnet Point Wellness

We awarded this facility one of our better scores in the area of long-term care, where it received an A-. This is a notably better grade than the nursing home's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.6997 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's third most favorable area ended up being its short-term care grade, where it received a B-. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last area we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few factors, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.