Caraday of Lampasas

While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in nursing, where it received a B+. Our nursing rating is based on many components, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

This facility was given its second best category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our long-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of care. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 86.2069 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than what we expected. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is well below average in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 2.2 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's government inspections. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular nursing home had a category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that inspectors uncovered a deficiency which places patient safety or health in immediate danger. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This typically means that a nursing home's poor performance spanned several years.