Teague Nursing & Rehabilitation

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not 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.

In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received strong long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second best grade. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. The nursing rating weighs a handful of factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. Naturally, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. In crafting these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we discovered that this facility provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.