Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antoni

Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antoni is a facility located in San Antonio, Texas which has 1,585,405 people. Sporting an overall score of A, this facility is one of the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. We really can not say enough favorable things about this nursing home. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. With our short-term care score, we seek to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This facility performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. It performed as well as just about any nursing home with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. There are several factors included in this area. Many of these subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B+. This topped off an elite profile. Few nursing homes received a B+ or better in every single category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.