Abri at Edinburg

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. 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 generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

We also gave this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B+ in this area, which is one of our more favorable grades. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.29329 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Our next area we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility was given an F. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage 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 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the last area we assessed. It received an F in this area. Even with multiple solid scores in other categories, this grade is still of a concern so we felt obligated to point it out. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below average. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing rating significantly.