Casa De Oro Center

Casa De Oro Center is one of six nursing homes in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We gave this facility an F, which is definitely concerning in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, this facility likely isn't a fit for anyone. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

We didn't have any positive things to say about this facility's overall score or its category scores. This place's best category came in nursing. However, with a grade of just D in this category, it still performed poorly. The nursing score is based on several datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.

This nursing home's second most respectable score was short-term care, but it nevertheless received a grade of just D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care ratings are likely more important for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its poor score in this category, we were not shocked to find that this facility provided far fewer registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 37.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

This facility's second lowest category is long-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 83.1579 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not as bad due to it having more complicated patients. This was its best score in this category

The final category we looked at was inspections. This nursing home didn't receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. Consequently, we had to give it an F in this category. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home had a category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that the government inspectors identified a deficiency which places patient safety or health in imminent jeopardy. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.