The Palms Nursing and Rehabilitation
5607 Everhart Rd, Corpus Christi TX 78411 · (361) 854-4601 · 66.51% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
The Palms Nursing and Rehabilitation is a very-large facility located in Corpus Christi, Texas. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. Based on our analysis, this facility probably isn't a good fit for anyone. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 204 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom scores in our assessment. Perhaps most alarmingly, it received an F for its long-term care grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.36 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
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. For places that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was hit with one category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. These categories mean that inspectors uncovered a deficiency which places resident safety or health in immediate danger. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines recently of over $50,000. This typically suggests that CMS inspectors became fed up after several years of bad inspections.
Nurse Quality
In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing rating includes many factors, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we rated was short-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a poor grade. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. With a grade in this range in this category, we were not shocked to find this place was below average in many staffing metrics we looked at. The facility offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 28 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Palms Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better