Ranger Care Center

Ranger Care Center is located in Ranger, Texas. The city has 3,238 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly much worse places out there. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.56 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this number may be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of residents.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an D. The nursing score consists of many datapoints, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a significant disappointment. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 31.9 percent of its residents returning home.