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.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing score. We awarded them an impressive grade of C in this area. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. 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. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of C. In calculating these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.