The Villa at Texarkana

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing score exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating consists of many factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a favorable inspection grade. Its inspection score turned out to be its second best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next best area turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it received a C. In determining our long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.69512 percent of its patients. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in short-term care, which is a respectable grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.