Las Palmas Healthcare Center is one of eight available nursing homes located in Mcallen, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some decent scores. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Mcallen. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so we will need to take a closer look to see how new ownership affects this facility's performance measures.
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Las Palmas Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that Las Palmas Healthcare Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.32215 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we graded was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more critical for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our last area, this facility really didn't perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was this nursing home's poorest grade. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This place averaged only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hour totals, this place also received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's patients sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a poor nursing rating.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Las Palmas Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 3.27% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 4.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have sustained urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 9.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 14.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 98.51% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 28.46% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 28.75% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 28.75% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 12.59% of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 60.27% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Scores for Mcallen, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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