Decatur Nursing and Rehabilitation

With an address in Decatur, Texas, Decatur Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of only three facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of D, this is a subpar nursing home. Unfortunately, this grade is not too far off the city grade for Decatur, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care score appears to be one of its respectable scores. The facility was given a B- in this category. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was not quite as favorable. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Sadly, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 38.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that area. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. With a meager 2.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below average. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.