Lubbock Hospitality Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Lubbock Hospitality Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Lubbock, Texas. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better scores in that area with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility also didn't fare poorly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- for that area, which is among its better grades. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.92537 percent of its residents. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 1.81 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is also slightly below average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this facility's nursing score significantly.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 30.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.