Jacinto Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Although we didn't give this place a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of C. Nursing grades are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 60.487804 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on to our last area, we awarded this facility a grade of D in the area of short-term care. This was the facility's worst category rating. With our short-term care rating, we strive to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With its weak score in this category, we were not stunned to learn this facility provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.