Regent Care Center of San Marcos

Located in San Marcos, Texas, Regent Care Center of San Marcos is one of just three available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of C, this appears to be a solid facility. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse places out there. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

We awarded this facility an impressive grade of A for our long-term care rating. This grade is much more impressive than its overall grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

This facility received high scores in the category of nursing as well. In fact, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an B-. Our nursing score is primarily based on a facility's nurse staffing. This place averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

This facility received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Our last area is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in that area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is frequently a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 42.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.