Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Falfurrias, Texas. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some solid marks. Based on our ratings, there are definitely much worse facilities out there. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.
Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - Hospital district
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in this area with an A+. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also want to point out that this nursing home received a great long-term care score. Indeed, it received one of our most impressive grades in that category with a grade of A. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We found that this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the last category, this facility didn't perform well. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is its poorest area. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that sustained a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients which have sustained a UTI. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this statistic can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 4.81% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High rates of depression could imply lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 94.64% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Gulf Shores Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
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