Bonham Nursing and Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

This facility also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes received a better grade in this category. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.03846 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our next category, this facility received an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that area, completing one of our better report cards. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.