Cross Country Healthcare Center

Cross Country Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Brownwood, Texas. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. Although this score isn't too far off the city grade in Brownwood which is a C, you still should be able to find a better option. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that had too many severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 84.78261 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.27 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hour totals, this place earned suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients suffered falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing rating.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that category. With our short-term care category, we try to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 21.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.