Robstown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's next highest area ended up being its long-term care score, where it received a C. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With a grade in this range in this area, we weren't stunned to find this nursing home was well below average in many staffing figures we assess. It provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, which was this facility's weakest area. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is certainly very disappointing. Our nursing rating includes many data points, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this place received suboptimal scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this facility's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this place receiving a poor nursing grade.