Homestead Nursing and Rehabilitation of Collinsvil

Homestead Nursing and Rehabilitation of Collinsvil is a small nursing home located in Collinsville, Texas. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. At the end of the day, this facility should be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this place's profile was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider 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.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded it a top-shelf long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded this nursing home a score of A. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, 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 take any chances. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 3.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home really didn't perform well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's worst grade. In forming our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 33.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.