Mineola Healthcare Residence

Mineola Healthcare Residence is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Mineola, Texas. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. The only positive thing we can say about this facility is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's short-term care grade appears to be one of its respectable features. The nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is more often than not a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this place 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 important question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was a much stronger area for this facility. We found that it outperformed most facilities in this area with 56.1 percent of its patients returning home. This really boosted its grade in this area.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a D for its long-term care grade, which is not an impressive grade. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 91.9708 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.87 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is a higher hospitalization rate than most nursing homes, but it's not as bad as we expected.

The final category we graded is nursing, proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. The nursing rating analyzes a handful of factors, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.