Clyde Nursing Center

Clyde Nursing Center is the lone option we identified in Clyde, Texas. Featuring an overall grade of B-, 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this nursing home is its impressive score in long-term care. We gave it one of our most impressive grades in that category, with a score of A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.71 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. The nursing score weighs several factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This place averaged a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this facility also received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based measures we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this facility's patients experienced falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing score.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Sadly, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Our short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 36.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.