Focused Care at Baytown

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the area of long-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. Unfortunately, it appears we are missing some of this nursing home's data for this category. Without having access to long-term care related data for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to evaluate it in the long-term care category.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. There are a variety of factors included in this category. Most of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated is short-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a poor score. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.