Grand Terrace Rehabilitation and Healthcare
812 W Houston Ave, Mcallen TX 78501 · (956) 682-6331 · 88.17% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Grand Terrace Rehabilitation and Healthcare is an average-sized facility located in Mcallen, Texas. This isn't a very good facility with a D overall grade. Unfortunately, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Mcallen. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 93 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its high marks in long-term care. We awarded them an A- in this category, which was a shining light in an otherwise weak profile. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.090904 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.
Facility Inspections
Shockingly, this nursing home actually received a good score in inspections as well. We awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Not many nursing homes that were this poor overall received multiple category grades of this caliber. Our inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. The nursing score consists of a handful of datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the next category, this nursing home really didn't fare well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 38.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grand Terrace Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better