Retama Manor Nursing Center

Retama Manor Nursing Center is a large nursing home located in Corpus Christi, Texas. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. As far as we can see, you would be better off to avoid of this facility. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us anything positive to point out. Its best category was short-term care, but even there it received just a D. This is still a weak score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 43.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an D. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.

The third area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home's received a poor long-term care score where it received an F. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 69.76744 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than average. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This facility did not receive positive inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we gave it an F in this category. For facilities with bad inspection scores, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home had one category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. This generally means that the government inspectors identified a deficiency which puts patient health or safety in immediate danger. Finally, this facility also received 35 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.