Deerings Nursing and Rehabilitation
1020 N County Rd West, Odessa TX 79763 · (432) 332-0371 · 67.79% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Deerings Nursing and Rehabilitation is an average-sized facility located in Odessa, Texas. This isn't a very good facility with a D overall grade. Unfortunately, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Odessa. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 109 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This grade is far more impressive than the place's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in 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. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next best category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals needing more traditional services associated with personal care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 96.979866 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 4.2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Short-term Care Quality
Another concern was the F this facility was given in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who 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 37.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Our nursing category is based on many subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Deerings Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better