Gracy Woods Ii Living Center

Gracy Woods Ii Living Center is in Austin, Texas, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this is without a doubt a high quality nursing home. As a matter of fact, this is actually one of the highest rated nursing homes in the city. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section

On top of being a great facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.72299 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.7 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we rated was short-term care. We awarded this facility a solid grade in that area, with a C. Even though this is not as high as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 38.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.