Ignite Medical Resort San Antonio

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received an elite long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on the facility's inspections. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Our short-term care scores are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last category we graded is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our nursing category, making this the nursing home's weakest grade. The nursing rating includes many components, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing ratings. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.