Vibralife of El Paso Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last category we scored is nursing. In that category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This is this nursing home's weakest category. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of 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. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Although this nursing home did not have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls.