Duncanville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was terrible, it performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with too many deficiencies flagged. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an D. There are a number of factors within this area. Many of these subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.649124 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The next area we rated is short-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this area. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Given its weak grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover this facility provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.