Powerback Rehabilitation San Antonio

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This facility excelled in this category.

We gave this nursing home a grade of A- for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last area, this facility also was given a first-rate nursing score, with a grade of A-. This finished off a straight A report card. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident more often.