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Highland Nursing Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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5819 Pecan Valley Dr,
San Antonio TX 78223

(210) 532-1911

58.81% estimated occupancy 1

With over 20 facilities to choose from located in San Antonio, Texas, Highland Nursing Center is one of many nursing homes in the city. This facility received an overall score of B+. This ended up being head and heals above many of the facilities in San Antonio. Based on our ratings, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • No Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

This facility has also received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS 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 an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing rating is based on several subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The next category we rated was short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's worst area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Highland Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Highland Nursing Center, 4.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Highland Nursing Center, 1.44% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have suffered a fall leading to major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Highland Nursing Center, 7.25% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Highland Nursing Center, 33.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Highland Nursing Center, 27.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Highland Nursing Center, 7.32% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Highland Nursing Center, 100% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Highland Nursing Center, 11.7% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Highland Nursing Center, 9.34% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: F

In Highland Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Highland Nursing Center, 9.34% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Scores for San Antonio, TX

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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