St Giles Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

St Giles Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in the large metropolitan area of El Paso, Texas. Our rating system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. We rated this as one of the bottom 10 rated nursing homes in El Paso. In a city with countless other facilities, you will probably be able to find an alternative. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second most respectable category is long-term care, but it still received a grade of just D in that area. This ended up being a relatively poor score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.41349 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Another unfortunate development is the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its abysmal score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this place offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. It performed better in this area, with 51.5 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to our final area, this facility didn't fare well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.