Buena Vida Nursing and Rehab Odessa

Buena Vida Nursing and Rehab Odessa is an average-sized nursing home located in Odessa, Texas. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade of this caliber indicates we found some red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's mediocre overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are five other nursing homes in Odessa. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.46154 percent of its residents. The last datapoint we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

This facility's second lowest score was short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average grade. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It looks like this place was subpar in many staffing metrics we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 35.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next area we rated is nursing, proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. The nursing score analyzes many data points, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't 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 place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.