Las Palmas Healthcare Center is one of eight available nursing homes located in Mcallen, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some decent scores. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Mcallen, which admittedly is admittedly a bit below average nationally. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Las Palmas Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No 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
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this area with an A-. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next best area was its long-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.6337 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third most favorable category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we assessed was nursing, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D in the area of nursing. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
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, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 4.81% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing signs of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 94.64% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Las Palmas Healthcare Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Mcallen, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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