The Medical Resort at Pearland

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient even once per day.

This facility's next best category was inspections. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of C in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home's second worse score is short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With a score in this range in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in several staffing figures we looked at. The facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Moving on to our final category, we gave this facility a D in long-term care. This is the nursing home's least impressive category score. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted vaccination data. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.