Deerings Nursing and Rehabilitation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.