Cedar Hills Geriatric Center

Cedar Hills Geriatric Center is the sole option we found in Camp Wood, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall score of F. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't a good fit for anyone. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B for our inspections rating. This is the result of the nursing home receiving a decent inspection report this year. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category was short-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This still happens to be a well below average grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Considering its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to find this nursing home provides far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care score, which is not a very good score. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home didn't fare quite as well.

The final category we scored is nursing. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 2.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.