Senior Care at Stephenville

Senior Care at Stephenville is a large nursing home located in Stephenville, Texas. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some respectable marks. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. This nursing home did not excel in every category we looked at, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with an A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was awarded a positive short-term care grade. In fact, we gave them a B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes with 52 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

The next area we looked at is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of C in this area. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.636086 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

The last area we scored was nursing, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This place provided only 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.