Edgewood Manor

Edgewood Manor is a nursing home located in Texarkana, Texas. This city has a population of 60,677 people. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a well below average nursing home. To our surprise, it turned out to be one of the top three facilities in Texarkana. Finally, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so hopefully its performance improves in the coming year.

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that have a long list of severe deficiencies. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The next highest area we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 99.5935 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.42 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 33.7 percent of its residents returning home.