Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation - New Br

Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation - New Br is a large nursing home in New Braunfels, Texas. Our grading scheme was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall rating of F. While the city grade in New Braunfels which is also just a D, you still should be able to find a better option. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we gave it a B- for our long-term care rating. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 75.68389 percent of its patients for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.88 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is also below average.

This facility also didn't rate poorly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that area, which wound up being among its better scores. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 51 percent of its residents returning home.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. One of the most important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility did not fare very well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. The nursing score analyzes several components, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.