Farmersville Health and Rehabilitation

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite long-term care grade. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's short-term care rating appears to be one of its least impressive scores. Unfortunately, the facility was given a D in this area, which is well below average. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In this facility's case, it looks like it offers less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

The last category we scored was nursing, which is this facility's weakest category. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is clearly a bit of a disappointment. Our nursing category consists of many data points, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Although this nursing home's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its patients appear to be suffering fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.