E F and Bertha Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village

E F and Bertha Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village is in Brenham, Texas. We gave this nursing home a respectable overall grade of B-. After grading the other alternatives in Brenham, this appears to be a higher quality selection than the majority of them. Based on our ratings, this facility ought to meet the needs of many people. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 59.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Long-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 88.02083 percent of its residents against pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

The next area we rated is nursing. In this category, we gave this facility a C. In calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.