Weslaco Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
422 E 18th St, Weslaco TX 78596 · (956) 973-8451 · 98% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Weslaco Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Weslaco, Texas. This nursing home is a well below average facility. A grade in this range indicates we found a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Weslaco. The city has just two other nursing homes. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its high marks in the area of long-term care. We gave them an A- in this area, which salvaged an otherwise weak profile. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 30.853996 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.78 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is close to average in this area.
Facility Inspections
Another strength for this facility is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed better in this area, with 58.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final area we graded is nursing. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in this category. There are a variety of subcategories within this grade. Most of these data points are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the major statistics we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Weslaco Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better