Homestead Nursing and Rehabilitation of Hillsboro

Homestead Nursing and Rehabilitation of Hillsboro is an average-sized nursing home located in Hillsboro, Texas. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a solid nursing home. This place has some things going for it. The best part of this facility's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was awarded a favorable score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in that category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 92.01389 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.21 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The third category we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home's received a rock-bottom short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a fair measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 39.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home did not perform very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is its weakest category grade. Our nursing score assesses a handful of components, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This place offered only 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.