Lakes of Monclova Health Campus The

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home was given a favorable nursing rating this year, with a grade of B-. While this was not quite as good as some of its other scores, this remains a decent rating in that category. In determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.