The Healthcare Resort of Plano

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a high-end short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its third strongest category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we looked at was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a favorable nursing grade this year, with a grade of B-. Even though this isn't nearly as elite as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless an acceptable grade for that area. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also factored in a few quality-based statistics in this category. While this place didn't rank highly in terms of nursing hours per resident, it fared much better in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this nursing home fared better than average. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care.