Poteet Manor

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third highest category was its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of C. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The last category we graded is nursing, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is certainly a major concern. Nursing grades are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.