Rapid Recovery Center of Waco

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Contributing to its fine assessment, this facility also was given an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our last category, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of B+. This completed a very impressive profile. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.