The Villa at Texarkana

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our nursing rating. This score is much more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our nursing rating includes many datapoints, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is a more impressive than the facility's overall grade. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's third highest area was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by a facility's patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.68051 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we rated was short-term care. This nursing home was given a C in the category. Our short-term care ratings are probably more important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.