Kingsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
3130 S Brahma Blvd, Kingsville TX 78363 · (361) 592-8700 · 78.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Kingsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Kingsville, Texas. This nursing home received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Kingsville. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its high marks in long-term care. We awarded them an A- in this area, which salvaged an otherwise weak profile. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.39759 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.51 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Another strength for this facility is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Another concern is the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home did not fare well here either. We found that just 46 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next area, this facility did not perform well in this area either. With a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. There are many criteria within this area. Most of the criteria are tied to staffing levels. This facility averaged just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of being below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics helped pull down this facility's nursing rating significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kingsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often linked to lower quality nursing care. More supervision can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Many argue this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better