Rapid Recovery Center of Waco

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care score. This actually ended up being this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this nursing home. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 66.7 percent of its patients returning 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 ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 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 nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category, topping off one of our finer profiles. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.