Senior Care of Onion Creek

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this nursing home's inspections.

We also gave this facility a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable grades. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.67846 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility received a strong nursing score this year as well. It earned one of our better scores in that category with a F. The nursing grade assesses many components, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care score.