Lytle Nursing Home

This facility's best category grade came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of B- in this area. Our long-term care scores are more important for patients in need of more conventional services associated with personal care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning the last category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a facility's recent inspections. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Since this data is collected by independent inspectors, we tend to take it pretty seriously. One of the most critical factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This generally means that a poor track record spanned multiple years.