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 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing score considers a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we looked at was short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive area. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously very disappointing. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home.