Southwestern Veterans Center

We also want to point out that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Turning our next category, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In the final category, this nursing home also received a very strong long-term care score, with a grade of A-. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 93.962265 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.