Haskell Healthcare Center

Haskell Healthcare Center is a facility located in Haskell, Texas, which has a population of 3,980 people. Featuring an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. Based on our ratings, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it received an A. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.65 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections category. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is significantly below the national average. On top of its below average nursing hours, this facility received poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing grade.

The next area we graded was short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is obviously a major concern. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We found that this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 27.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.