Regent Care Center of Laredo

Regent Care Center of Laredo is one of five nursing homes located in Laredo, Texas. We awarded this facility an overall grade of C. A score in this range requires some decent marks. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Laredo, which admittedly is admittedly a bit below average nationally. One of the better aspects of this facility's report card is its strong inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also received an impressive score in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility a better than average grade of B+ in this area. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.33679 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Sadly, this nursing home's next best score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is often a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. With a grade this poor for this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in several staffing figures we assess. The facility supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This facility did not fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 48.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's least impressive category is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area. In spite of several respectable grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. With only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.