Wells Ltc Partners

Wells Ltc Partners is the sole option we identified in Wells, Texas. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. In our view, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

This place really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A+. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem 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.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This is often a reliable indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

This facility's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a D. Short-term care grades are generally employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. It looks like this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we considered. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.