Poteet Manor

With an address in Poteet, Texas, Poteet Manor is the sole nursing home we were able to find in the city. This facility received an overall grade of C, which is a good grade. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is a good fit for most people. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also fared well in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.61905 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.45 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In addition, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its weak rating in this category, we weren't shocked to find this place provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 37.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

The next area we analyzed was nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a poor grade. This is obviously a major concern. Our nursing grade includes a host of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. On top of performing poorly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had terrible scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at more than double the national average in both of these data points.