Edinburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A+. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this nursing home is its superb score in long-term care. We gave them one of our best grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second lowest grade is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of F in this category. This is a relatively poor score in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.7 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we assessed was nursing, which ended up being this facility's worst area. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is obviously very disappointing. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. On top of its subpar nursing hours, this facility earned suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing scores. We found that more of this place's patients suffered falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing grade.