Yoakum Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't consider 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.

Among the reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care turned out to be its second most favorable category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.57806 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing rating is based on many factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.3 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we scored is short-term care. We awarded this facility a D for short-term care, rendering this the facility's least impressive category. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.