Richard A. Anderson (State of Texas Veterans Land

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to inspections, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for that category. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is difficult to assess it in the inspections category.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.9314 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we scored was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a B. Although this ended up being its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless an impressive rating. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.