Cambridge Ltc Partners

Cambridge Ltc Partners is an average-sized facility in Dimmitt, Texas. With an overall score of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. This nursing home has some things going for it. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also received a positive long-term care score. In fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our better. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home earned a very good nursing rating as well. It received one of our better scores in that area with a F. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility had poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.

This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the final area we looked at. Sadly, it received an F in this area. Despite some decent scores in other categories, this grade is still concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 21.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.