Legacy Rehabilitation and Living

Legacy Rehabilitation and Living is a large facility located in Amarillo, Texas. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with an A-. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The second highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The third category we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this category. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 51.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in that category. This is not a bad grade in this category. In the category of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.