Mulberry Manor

Mulberry Manor is an average-sized nursing home located in Stephenville, Texas. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. Unfortunately, this grade is not too far off the city grade for Stephenville, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to find a better option Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category grades

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. 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 end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This place averaged only 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the areas we focus on, with solid scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

The last area we scored is short-term care, in which this facility received a very poor score in this area as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In determining our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 38.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.