Mcallen Nursing Center

This nursing home fared well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category. This saved its overall profile. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. We looked at the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last area we looked at was short-term care. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is a rock bottom grade. This is clearly a significant concern. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.