Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Dumas, Texas, a city with 16,177 people. This nursing home proved to be an A+ facility. Receiving an A+ in our grading system takes superb marks across the board. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 50 facilities in Texas. One of the best aspects of this facility's remarkable report card is its long-term care score. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to providing well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This figure is also much higher than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+. Our nursing grade is based on a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This place provides a very impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is among the more impressive figures in the country. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a protocol of moving patients more often.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. 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 an excellent sign.

Moving on to our next category, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category. This rounded out a first-rate report card. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.