Houston County Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should 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 no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors 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.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.47899 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

Switching gears to the last category, we gave this facility a grade of D in the area of short-term care. This is the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is more often than not a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.