Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Uvalde, Texas, which has 22,022 people. Featuring an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
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Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an elite long-term care score. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with an impressive grade of A. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.83721 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for inspections. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our third category, this facility also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the final category, this facility received a respectable nursing rating. Even though this is not nearly as strong as several of its other scores, this is truly not a major area of concern. There are a number of criteria included in this grade. Most of these data points are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 4.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 2.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care residents who suffered a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 4.4% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care residents that sustained urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 5.03% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 12.59% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 21.95% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 98.38% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 20.87% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 11.58% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 11.58% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 16.47% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Uvalde Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 66.79% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Uvalde Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.54 miles away1025 Garner Field Road Uvalde Texas 78801Government - Hospital District or Authority(830) 278-6251
Nearby Dialysis
- Kidney Disease Clinic of Uvalde2.46 miles away1819 Garner Field Rd Uvalde Texas 78801CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (830) 278-1126