Crockett County Care Center is in Ozona, Texas. The city has a population of 3,693 people. This is an A+ facility, which is our absolute highest score. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top ten percentile of all facilities in the United States. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category ratings, which look to be just as impressive as its overall score.
Crockett County Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning our next category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a dominant grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.94737 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home 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 number.
Short-term Care Quality
In our final category, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. This finished off a very favorable profile. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Crockett County Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Crockett County Care Center, 7.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Crockett County Care Center, 3.28% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents that sustained a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Crockett County Care Center, 1.64% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents which had UTI's. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Crockett County Care Center, 11.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Crockett County Care Center, 22.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Crockett County Care Center, 4.66% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Crockett County Care Center, 94.73% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Crockett County Care Center, 17.29% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Crockett County Care Center, 18.08% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Crockett County Care Center, 1.58 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Crockett County Care Center, 18.08 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.