Killeen Nursing & Rehabilitation

With an address in Killeen, Texas, Killeen Nursing & Rehabilitation is one of just a couple nursing homes in this area. This nursing home received an extremely poor overall score based on the data we looked at. This nursing home didn't have any redeeming qualities. While this nursing home received suboptimal grades this year, we did want to let you know that there was a recent ownership change. We will keep an eye on their inspections and quality scores to see whether their performance warrants better scores in the future.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our short-term care rating. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is considered to be a reliable measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed well in this metric with 60.6 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Sadly, this proved to be its second best grade. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 94.331985 percent of its residents, which is an above average datapoint. We were far less impressed with its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is definitely a concerning figure.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. With places that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

The next category we looked at is nursing. It received an F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.