Coldwater Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

Adding to this facility's list of strengths, it also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A- in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finally, we also found that this nursing home has received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B in this area. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.