Located in Comfort, Texas, Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is the only nursing home located in this area. Featuring an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, this facility should be a good fit for quite a few people. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - Hospital district
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second highest area was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this facility received a C in long-term care, which we consider to be a decent grade. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.05882 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by poor nursing care. However, this metric could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents which are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the decline of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some experts argue that mobility is critical to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Comfort Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Peterson Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.59 miles away551 Hill Country Drive Kerrville Texas 78028Voluntary non-profit - Private(830) 896-4200
- Hill Country Memorial Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 19.94 miles away1020 South State Highway 16 Fredericksburg Texas 78624Voluntary non-profit - Private(830) 997-4353
Nearby Dialysis
- Kerrville Dialysis15.34 miles away515-a Granada Kerrville Texas 78028Dialysis Stations: 16 (830) 257-8734
- Boerne Dialysis Center17.13 miles away1369 Main Street Boerne Texas 78006Dialysis Stations: 12 (830) 249-1491
- Us Renal Care Boerne Dialysis18 miles away1595 South Main Suite 107 Boerne Texas 78006Dialysis Stations: 16 (830) 816-3030