Summer Meadows

With an address in Longview, Texas, Summer Meadows is one of nine available facilities in the city. This is an A rated facility, which is one of the highest ratings we offer. Not surprisingly, this proved to be substantially better than most of the nursing homes in the city. As you will see below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category ratings. In fact, we gave it straight A's!

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this facility's quality nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.24 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

Compounding its fine profile, this facility also received a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. This nursing home provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It fared better than most facilities in the country in this area with 52.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Lastly, this nursing home also earned excellent inspection reports in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in the area of inspections, with a grade of A-. Few other nursing homes received an A- or better in all four categories. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.