Concho Health & Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In computing these long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. The nursing score is based on several datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

The last area we graded was short-term care, which is a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a D for our short-term care category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.