Sanctuary at the Woodlands

To go along with a strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care score. This wrapped up a very strong profile. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.