Summit Nursing & Rehab of San Augustine

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of long-term care, we gave this facility a score of A- in that area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an impressive grade of D. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This facility offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of short-term care, rendering this the nursing home's weakest category grade. In our short-term care rating, we strive to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we found that it offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.