The Meadows of Orange

The Meadows of Orange is one of just a couple facilities located in Orange, Texas. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This facility is just about as bad as it gets. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a B. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be among its better scores. With our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

We were also stunned to discover that this nursing home earned a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care grade is used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next area we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home was given a poor grade in this category as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. With just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.