Windsor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of McAllen

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite long-term care grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.78715 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third area we graded was short-term care. In this area, where we awarded this facility an F, which is worse than most of its other category grades. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home really didn't fare well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's worst area. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is far below average. On top of its below average nursing hour totals, this nursing home received suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing scores. We found that more of this place's patients suffered falls leading to serious injury. We believe that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing score.