PureHealth Transitional Care at Texas Health Presbyterian

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are likely more important for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We gave it a grade of B+ for this category. This finalized a very strong report card. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.