Dove Hill Care Center and Villas

Dove Hill Care Center and Villas is an average-sized nursing home located in Hamilton, Texas. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. Based on the data we reviewed, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This place really performed well in the category of long-term care, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. If not for this area, this nursing home's overall grade would have been lower. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.26028 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an B+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors 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 always a good sign.

This facility was given its next highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a respectable score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was a much stronger area for this facility. We found that it outperformed most facilities in this area with 56.8 percent of its patients returning home. This really bolstered its grade in this category.

The final category we scored was nursing, which is this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.