Powerback Rehabilitation San Antonio

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also performed well in the area of long-term care, where it received an A. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this facility a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its superb resume, this nursing home also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home was awarded a respectable nursing grade. Although this isn't nearly as strong as several of its other category grades, this is really not a poor grade. The nursing rating considers a number of factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This facility averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is well below average. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are measures of the quality of nursing care.