Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is located in Luling, Texas, a city with a total of 7,683 people. This nursing home received a strong overall rating of B+, making it the highest graded nursing home in Luling. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & 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
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Dialysis Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall score, this place also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our best grades in this category, with an A. Inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not 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.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility was awarded strong marks in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, it received one of our most favorable scores in that area with a score of A. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.05882 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a patient at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was short-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in this area, with a grade of B-. Even though this wasn't as strong as a few of its other grades, it is still not a terrible score. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who experienced a UTI. While more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence. Some experts believe this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Diversicare of Luling - Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Ascension Seton Edgar B DavisCritical Access Hospitals 1.33 miles away130 Hays Street Luling Texas 78648Voluntary non-profit - Private(830) 875-7000
- Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.31 miles away1110 North Sarah Dewitt Drive Gonzales Texas 78629Government - Hospital District or Authority(830) 672-7581
Nearby Dialysis
- Meramec Dialysis, LLC13.06 miles away1806 South Colorado Street Lockhart Texas 78644Dialysis Stations: 13 (512) 398-6419
- Biio-Medical Applications of Texas, Inc.13.15 miles away1721 S Colorado St Lockhart Texas 78644Dialysis Stations: 15 (512) 398-6357
- Davita-Gonzales16.47 miles away1406 North Sarah Dewitt Gonzales Texas 78629Dialysis Stations: 16 (830) 672-4377