With an address in Harlingen, Texas, Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is one of seven nursing homes in this city. This is a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of B-. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Harlingen. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that area, which happens to be one of our highest grades. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was short-term care. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a significant disappointment. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be a sign worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Harlingen, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Harlingen, Texas has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Vhs Harlingen Hospital Company LLCAcute Care Hospitals 0.89 miles away2101 Pease St Harlingen Texas 78550Proprietary(956) 389-1100
- Harlingen Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.93 miles away5501 South Expressway 77 Harlingen Texas 78550Proprietary(956) 365-1000
- Rio Grande State CenterPsychiatric 1.61 miles away1401 Rangerville Road Harlingen Texas 78550Government - State(956) 364-8000
- Knapp Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.49 miles away1401 East Eight Street Weslaco Texas 78596Voluntary non-profit - Private(956) 968-8567
Nearby Dialysis
- Harlingen Dialysis0.39 miles away4302 Sesame Drive Harlingen Texas 78550CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (956) 365-4103
- Treasure Hills Dialysis0.94 miles away1629 Treasure Hills Blvd Suite 8 Harlingen Texas 78550Dialysis Stations: 13 (956) 364-2120
- Fmc Harlingen0.96 miles away1653 Treasure Hills Blvd. Harlingen Texas 78552Dialysis Stations: 12 (956) 412-1097
- Valley Baptist Harlingen Dialysis1.13 miles away2220 Haine Drive, Suite 40 Harlingen Texas 78550CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 48 (956) 364-2789
- Us Renal Care San Benito Dialysis4.7 miles away910 North Mccullough Street San Benito Texas 78586CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (956) 399-4037
- Renal Treatment Centers of Southeast, Lp14.48 miles away1307 Cameron St Mercedes Texas 78570Dialysis Stations: 21 (956) 514-2596
- Us Renal Care Mid Valley Weslaco Dialysis18.26 miles away1005 S. Airport Drive Weslaco Texas 78596CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (956) 968-5806
- Weslaco Dialysis Facility18.3 miles away1614 E Commercial Drive Weslaco Texas 78599CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (956) 973-1970