Senior Care of Brownwood

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's second most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. In determining these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 61.3 percent of its residents returning home.

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. Our nursing rating assesses many subcategories, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next category we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B. Even though this ended up being its poorest category rating, this is still a favorable score. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.354836 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.