Southern Specialty Rehab & Nursing

Southern Specialty Rehab & Nursing is located in Lubbock, Texas. This city is one of the largest cities in the country with has a population of 254,282 people. This nursing home was given an overall score of F. Although the city grade in Lubbock which is also just a D, you still ought to be able to do better. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of severe deficiencies. 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. Even with this deficiency, this place still had a relatively favorable report.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. There are many datapoints within this category. Most of these factors relate to staffing levels. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.

Another unfortunate development was the F this nursing home received in the area of long-term care. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated just 89.53846 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. We were also disappointed with the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly twice the national average.

Moving on to our next category, this facility did not fare very well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a score in this range in this category, we weren't surprised to learn this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing figures we focus on. The nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 25.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.