Park Manor of the Woodlands

On top of earning a great overall rating, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you 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. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given an above average long-term care grade. In fact, this wound up being its second best category grade. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are vital for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we graded was nursing. We awarded this facility a B- in that category. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.