Post Nursing & Rehab Center

Post Nursing & Rehab Center is a small government-owned facility located in Post, Texas. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. 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 Post. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This facility also didn't grade out too badly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of C in that category, which is among its better scores. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 90.67796 percent of its residents against pneumonia. The last statistic we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had a relatively high 4.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this nursing home in this area.

The third category we graded is short-term care. This facility's received a rock-bottom short-term care score where it received an F. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final area we assessed was nursing. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is an abysmal score. The nursing score features numerous factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. With a meager 2.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing score quite a bit.