Regent Care Center of League City

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second most favorable area ended up being its long-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are crucial for people in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home gave the vaccine to just 44.300518 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest category was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. With a score of this caliber in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was below average in several staffing metrics we focus on. The facility supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the final area we scored. Sadly, it received an F for this category. Even with several solid grades in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we wanted to point it out. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.