Cherokee Rose Nursing and Rehabilitation

Cherokee Rose Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of just a few facilities located in Glen Rose, Texas. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile was its exemplary inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The next highest area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. In determining our long-term care ratings, we look at the assistance with daily living received by the facility's residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.52153 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this area. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more meaningful for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. It fared better than most facilities in this metric with 55.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, which was this nursing home's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is obviously concerning. There are quite a few subcategories included in this area. Many of these data points reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients having falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.