Focused Care at Baytown

Focused Care at Baytown is an average-sized facility located in Baytown, Texas. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. In a city without an elite selection of nursing homes, this facility was better than most of the alternatives in Baytown. The best part of this place's profile was its remarkable inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we awarded it a score of A- in that category, which happens to be one of our best scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 46 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these relatively poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. This is clearly a significant concern. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the major data points we focus on, with solid scores for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These metrics are typically good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.