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The Village at Arnate Word

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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4707 Broadway Street,
San Antonio TX 78209

(210) 829-7561

83.5% estimated occupancy ¹

With an address in San Antonio, Texas, The Village at Arnate Word is on a list of 62 nursing homes this area. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this turned out to be ranked among the fifteen highest rated facilities nursing homes in San Antonio. This nursing home definitely has plenty of good features. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Other

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care score. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.97436 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. We looked at the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents more often.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. This actually was this nursing home's weakest category. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

The Village at Arnate Word Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In The Village at Arnate Word, 8.54% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In The Village at Arnate Word, 2.56% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In The Village at Arnate Word, 1.05% of Patients had UTIs

This is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In The Village at Arnate Word, 5.82% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In The Village at Arnate Word, 17.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In The Village at Arnate Word, 5.18% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In The Village at Arnate Word, 99% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In The Village at Arnate Word, 9.35% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In The Village at Arnate Word, 18.79% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

In The Village at Arnate Word, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In The Village at Arnate Word, 18.79% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In The Village at Arnate Word, 9.74% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.