Ignite Medical Resort San Antonio

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care grade. We gave it an impressive grade of A in that area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A-. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing 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.

The third category we assessed is long-term care. Contributing to its high-end profile, this nursing home also performed well in that category. In fact, it received a of A- for the category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. 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 figure.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a strong grade of B. Our nursing grade is based on several data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Texas 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 having a policy of moving residents more frequently.