Focused Care at Pecos

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid government inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which is much better than its overall grade. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the category of short-term care, with a B-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility's third highest category ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. With our long-term care assessment, we assess the amount of services provided by a facility, along with a few quality measures. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very solid total. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. There are several factors included in this category. Many of the data points relate to levels of nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.