Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Round Rock

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency data for this nursing home, it ended up being a challenge to really grade it in the inspections category.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care scores are critical for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. In determining our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to a facility's residents. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on vaccination rates. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we looked at was nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is certainly very concerning. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.