Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation

Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation is a large facility located in Ballinger, Texas. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

This place really excelled in long-term care. We gave it a grade of A+ for that area. This saved its overall profile. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing category analyzes many datapoints, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. On top of its weak nursing hours, this nursing home also earned poor scores in several of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients experienced falls leading to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing score.

Turning to the final category, this facility didn't fare well. With a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's weakest category. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility'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. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 39.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.