Holly Hall

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility really excelled at short-term care, where it earned an A. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having all of the deficiency related data for this facility, it ended up being difficult to fully evaluate it in the inspections category.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home 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 policy of moving residents more frequently.

The last category we looked at was this facility's poorest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of C in our long-term care category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.