Focused Care at Baytown

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider 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.

To add to its elite assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A- for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. It goes without saying that we were impressed with what we found here in this category.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its elite profile, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, it received a of A- in that category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In our last area, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. Our nursing grade includes a number of data points. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.