Matador Health and Rehabilitation Center

It should also be noted that this nursing home's inspection rating outpaced its overall score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for its inspections grade, which is a very solid score. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's short-term care score appears to be one of its respectable features. The nursing home received a B- in this category. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's next most favorable area ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a C. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we looked at was nursing, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for nursing. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.