Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation is a senior living facility in Ballinger, Texas, a city with 4,869 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some solid scores. Based on our assessment, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This nursing home did not fare well in all of our categories, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
This facility's overall grade was bolstered by the fact that it has earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it a strong score in this area, with a B+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we scored was short-term care, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a D for our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents that 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 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care residents that were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 4.81% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 94.64% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Central Texas Nursing & Rehabilitation, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Ballinger Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.12 miles away608 Avenue B Ballinger Texas 76821Government - Hospital District or Authority(325) 365-2531
- North Runnels HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.75 miles away7821 East Highway 153 Winters Texas 79567Government - Hospital District or Authority(325) 754-4553