Medina Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center

Medina Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Castroville, Texas, which has a population of 7,255 people. Featuring an overall rating of B, this facility is a great choice. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this nursing home. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

On top of being a quality facility overall, this facility really fared well in long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.65636 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.67 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. Our nursing grade includes many subcategories. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the metrics we focus on, with solid marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we looked at was short-term care. We gave this facility a D for short-term care, leaving this as its weakest grade. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last area we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. It fared better in this area, with 53 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this area.