Concho Health & Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next most favorable area was its long-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing score assesses many components, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients even once per day.

The last area we rated was short-term care, is this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. With our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.