Granbury Rehab & Nursing

On top of earning a great overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we scored is nursing, which was this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. Unfortunately, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This statistic is well below average. While this place did not excel in the area of nursing hours, it actually surprised us in some of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place was better than average in this datapoint, which was one redeeming quality we found in this area.