Rockwall Nursing Care Center

This nursing home earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall rating. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's more favorable category scores came in the area of long-term care. This ended up being its second best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Long-term care scores are meaningful for individuals needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 90.97222 percent of its residents, which is a few points less than we anticipated. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best category came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The next area we assessed was nursing, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of D for nursing. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.