High Hope Care Center of Brenham

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so well is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second most favorable category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.871796 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we scored is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This is this nursing home's worst area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.