South Dallas Nursing & Rehabilitation

Although we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we awarded it a B for our inspections category. This is due to the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Incredibly, we awarded this facility a grade of C for our long-term care rating, which is not a bad grade. In calculating these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's personal care services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 91.39785 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we graded was short-term care. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that area. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.