The Clairmont Tyler

This place didn't perform quite as poorly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for those requiring more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 92.95302 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care rating and that actually ended up being its next most respectable category. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't shocked to find this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.