Irving Nursing and Rehabilitation

With an address in Irving, Texas, Irving Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of six nursing homes in this area. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the highest-rated nursing homes we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. At the end of the day, this place would be a no brainer for most people. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a high-end long-term care score. In fact, this is its second strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.91305 percent of its residents, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home 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 wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. The nursing score includes several components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents more often.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. Although this was not as strong as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless a positive grade. In determining these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.