Santa Fe Health & Rehabilitation Center

Santa Fe Health & Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Weatherford, Texas, a city with 65,228 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some respectable marks. Based on our analysis, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded it a high-end long-term care score. Indeed, we gave this facility a grade of A. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. We gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few datapoints, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the major statistics we focus on, with good scores for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These metrics are usually good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.

This facility's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category. Despite multiple decent grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to make a note of it. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most important for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this place's case, it looks like it provides fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 35.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.