Eden Home

Eden Home is one of four available nursing homes in New Braunfels, Texas. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor facility. This place has very little going for it. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B for our short-term care score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 55.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place surpassed the national average. We also look at the qualifications of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based assessments. This facility scored well in a few of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B- in this area. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.79012 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home did not receive positive government inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F here. For facilities with poor inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $50,000. This generally indicates that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed health inspections.