Tomball Rehab & Nursing

Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an D. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was long-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on to the next category, we awarded this nursing home a D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's least impressive category grade. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this place provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.