Rose Haven Retreat

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

This facility also was given an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Our final category is short-term care, in which we awarded this facility a B- in that area. With our short-term care category, we attempt to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number 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.