Focused Care at Huntsville

With an address in Huntsville, Texas, Focused Care at Huntsville is one of just a few nursing homes in the city. We gave this facility an F, which is really a rock-bottom score in our grading scheme. Unfortunately, the city grade for Huntsville isn't too much better. Nevertheless, you still should be able to do better Surprisingly, this nursing home actually received one decent category grade in inspections, which you can find more information about below.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next most favorable score is long-term care, but it still earned just a D in that category. This is still a relatively poor grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 68.023254 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having some more complex patients. This was its best score in this category

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averaged just 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place was above average in two of the areas we considered, with good marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

The final area we rated was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 22.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.