Castle Pines Health and Rehabilitation

Castle Pines Health and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Lufkin, Texas. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a solid nursing home. This place has some things going for it. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This place excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.42857 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.68 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an B+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home's second worse score was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 39.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we assessed is nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Many of these subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.