Arlington Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center
4825 Wellesley St, Fort Worth TX 76107 · (817) 732-6608 · 61.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Arlington Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Fort Worth, Texas. Our rating system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. Fort Worth received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. Finally, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so hopefully its performance improves in the coming year.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a respectable grade in the area of nursing. We gave it a B in this area. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this facility also fared even better in most of the quality measures we assessed. For example, it had a low rate of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for its long-term care rating, which is not too bad of a score. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for folks in need of more conventional services associated with personal care. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.287415 percent of its residents. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 1.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 37.1 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Facility Inspections
Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an abysmal grade. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 12 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Arlington Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better