St Dominic Village Nursing Home

St Dominic Village Nursing Home is a large non-profit facility in Houston, Texas. With an overall score of B-, this is likely a solid nursing home. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Houston. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to note that this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received one of our most impressive scores in that area with a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.09524 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.33 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most meaningful for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that it performed better in this area, with 49.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we scored was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. It received an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. There are a host of subcategories included in this category. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.