Kingwood Skilled Nursing & Therapy

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. In crafting our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. The nursing grade assesses several factors, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We gave it an F in this category, which is a very poor score. This is certainly a major concern. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.