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Las Alturas De Penitas

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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414 Liberty Blvd.,
Penitas TX 78576

(512) 439-2630

67.69% estimated occupancy ¹

Las Alturas De Penitas is a large facility in Penitas, Texas. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is favorable rating. Based on our analysis, this facility ought to meet the needs of most people. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home was given high marks in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most elite scores in that category with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.57806 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's third highest category is its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It does not look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Nurse Quality

The last area we graded is nursing. We gave this facility a D in nursing, making this the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Unfortunately, this place also didn't perform as well as we had hoped in some of the quality measures we looked at for this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Las Alturas De Penitas Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 7.91% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 5.49% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 1.46% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 10.68% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 16.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 0.45% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 96.75% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 13.73% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 6.83% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 6.83% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Las Alturas De Penitas, 9.19% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.