South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Athens, Texas. This isn't a bad facility with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Athens. Based on our ratings, there are certainly far worse facilities out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile was its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
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South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - Hospital district
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it received a B-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.44752 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Another unfortunate development is the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The last area we rated is nursing. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a significant concern. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place had really poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 6.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 6.63% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 11.69% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 16.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 10.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 2.27% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 99.72% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 19.08% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 13.79% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 13.79% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 15.68% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In South Place Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing, 52.38% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Ut Health East Texas Athens HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.41 miles away2000 South Palestine St Athens Texas 75751Voluntary non-profit - Private(903) 676-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Henderson County0.42 miles away1220 S Palestine Street Athens Texas 75751Dialysis Stations: 29 (903) 677-8471