Terrell Healthcare Center

We gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.46154 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

It should also be noted that this nursing home's inspection score was strong as well. In fact, we awarded it a B for inspections, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The final area we scored is short-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.