Tidwell Living Center

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this area. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded a dominant long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care ended up being its second most favorable category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.11651 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade weighs several components, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we assessed was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. While this proved to be its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.