Las Ventanas De Socorro

While we gave this facility a poor overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This was due to the nursing home receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't rate too badly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that category, which happens to be another one of its more favorable grades. In determining these long-term care ratings, we look at the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 88.850174 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another concern is the F this facility received in the category of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. With its weak rating in this category, we were not shocked to discover that this place provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next category we assessed is nursing, where this nursing home received a poor score here also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is definitely a major concern. The nursing rating includes numerous data points. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.