Calder Woods

Calder Woods is located in Beaumont, Texas. With an overall score of A-, this is without a doubt a very good nursing home. Indeed, this turned out to be substantially better than virtually all of the facilities in Beaumont. This facility also received consistently good scores in each of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an A for inspections. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this facility, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility also was given a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Texas in this area with 56.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The final area we analyzed is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. Although this proved to be its least impressive category score, this is still a strong grade. We weighed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is much more care than what is offered by most nursing homes. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.