The Heights of Tomball

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded positive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.447205 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. In computing our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home didn't perform well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's poorest area. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It appears that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.