Gibson Care Center

Gibson Care Center is located in Aspermont, Texas. The city has 1,350 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. We also want to point out that this nursing home is based in a hospital. Typically, this indicates that more intensive medical services are available. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was given a favorable grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 4.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on some of the medical complexity of residents.

Sadly, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. With a grade this poor for this area, we weren't shocked to learn that this place was below average in multiple staffing areas we assess. The nursing home supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we analyzed was nursing, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is clearly very concerning. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are with residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.