Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Brownsville, Texas. This isn't a bad facility with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Brownsville. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its stellar inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second best category is its long-term care score, where it received a C. With our long-term care assessment, we weigh the volume of services offered by a facility, as well as a series of qualitative metrics. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second lowest score was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the facility'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 measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next area, we gave this facility a grade of D in nursing. This was the nursing home's least impressive category grade. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients which sustained UTI's. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brownsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Brownsville, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Brownsville, Texas has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Valley Baptist Medical Center- BrownsvilleAcute Care Hospitals 3.77 miles away1040 W Jefferson St Brownsville Texas 78520Proprietary(956) 544-1400
- Harlingen Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.3 miles away5501 South Expressway 77 Harlingen Texas 78550Proprietary(956) 365-1000
- Vhs Harlingen Hospital Company LLCAcute Care Hospitals 16.92 miles away2101 Pease St Harlingen Texas 78550Proprietary(956) 389-1100
- Rio Grande State CenterPsychiatric 17.78 miles away1401 Rangerville Road Harlingen Texas 78550Government - State(956) 364-8000
Nearby Dialysis
- Nri Brownsville1.94 miles away2945 Central Blvd Brownsville Texas 78520CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (956) 542-8094
- Fmc Dialysis Services of North Brownsville2.1 miles away1900 N. Expressway, Suite E Brownsville Texas 78521CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (956) 504-5045
- Valley Hemodialysis Center2.41 miles away2600 N Coria Brownsville Texas 78520CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (956) 546-3738
- Fresenius Medical Care South Price3.09 miles away64 S Price Rd Suite B Brownsville Texas 78521Dialysis Stations: 36 (956) 544-0711
- Fort Brown Dialysis3.74 miles away2000 Boca Chica Blvd Brownsville Texas 78521Dialysis Stations: 13 (956) 544-1158
- Us Renal Care San Benito Dialysis12.88 miles away910 North Mccullough Street San Benito Texas 78586CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (956) 399-4037
- Treasure Hills Dialysis16.73 miles away1629 Treasure Hills Blvd Suite 8 Harlingen Texas 78550Dialysis Stations: 13 (956) 364-2120
- Fmc Harlingen16.74 miles away1653 Treasure Hills Blvd. Harlingen Texas 78552Dialysis Stations: 12 (956) 412-1097