Mitchell County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Mitchell County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized government-owned facility located in Colorado City, Texas. This nursing home received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Colorado City. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Even though we did not give this nursing home a good overall score, we surprisingly awarded it a fairly strong score in the area of long-term care, where it earned a B+. This is better than most facilities in this category. This helped an otherwise abysmal profile. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.514565 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

We actually gave this facility a very solid grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home averaged a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is quite a bit below the national average. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing falls leading to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The final category we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this area. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 21.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.