Retama Manor Nursing Center/Harlingen

Retama Manor Nursing Center/Harlingen is a large nursing home located in Harlingen, Texas. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires respectable scores in most areas. In fact, we found this facility to be better than most of the nursing homes in Harlingen, which has a city grade of B-. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive long-term care rating. In fact, this turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 94.666664 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an B+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Texas in this area with 58.5 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we graded is nursing. We gave this nursing home a C in that area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these subcategories. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this datapoint. This is typically a reliable indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a resident more often.