Edinburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave it a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, we gave this facility a score of A-. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.08814 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home did not perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is its worst grade. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these data points to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.