Eagle Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation

Eagle Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation is located in Eagle Lake, Texas. Our scoring system was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. This facility doesn't seem to have much going for it. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that area with a B. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which ended up being one of its more favorable category scores. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 58.0786 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility fared poorly with 3.06 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is nearly twice the national average.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. With our short-term care category, we strive to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 34.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.

The next category we graded is nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.