Kenedy Health & Rehabilitation

With an address in Kenedy, Texas, Kenedy Health & Rehabilitation is one of just two available facilities in this area. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some respectable scores. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is a solid choice for most people. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its exemplary inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next best category was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. Our long-term care ratings are more important for people needing more traditional services associated with personal care. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.33 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. We gave this facility an impressive grade of D. Nursing scores are primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to its subpar nursing hour totals, this place earned poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We found that more of this nursing home's residents sustained falls leading to serious injury.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its poor grade in this category, we weren't shocked to discover that this facility provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.