With an address in Midland, Texas, Ashton Medical Lodge is one of five facilities there. This isn't a bad facility with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Midland. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Ashton Medical Lodge
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Radiation Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.313255 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second least favorable category is short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final area we analyzed. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category. Even with a few acceptable scores in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we would like to to make sure you are aware. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ashton Medical Lodge Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which sustained falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents which experienced a UTI. UTI's could be an indicator of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 4.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients demonstrating signs of depression. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 94.64% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ashton Medical Lodge, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Midland, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Midland, Texas has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Midland Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.16 miles away400 Rosalind Redfern Grover Parkway Midland Texas 79701Government - Local(432) 685-1111
- Odessa Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.45 miles away520 E 6th Street Odessa Texas 79761Proprietary(432) 582-8340
- Medical Center HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.15 miles away500 W 4th Street Odessa Texas 79761Government - Hospital District or Authority(432) 640-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Permian Basin2.69 miles away3302 Golf Course Road Suite 200 Midland Texas 79703CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 37 (432) 522-2300
- Davita Downtown Midland Dialysis4.15 miles away511 W Missouri Ave Midland Texas 79701Dialysis Stations: 24 (432) 686-3907
- Midland Dialysis5.03 miles away705 W Wadley Ave Midland Texas 79705CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (432) 686-1806
- Odessa Dialysis11.36 miles away6005 Eastridge Road Odessa Texas 79762CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (432) 362-3026
- Complete Dialysis Care, LLC15.35 miles away607 E 7th Street Odessa Texas 79761CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (432) 332-1632
- Winster Dialysis, LLC15.66 miles away800 N Texas Ave Odessa Texas 79761Dialysis Stations: 12 (432) 332-1974
- Fresenius Medical Care Desert Milagro Dialysis Center16.03 miles away230 North Washington Ave Odessa Texas 79761CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 50 (432) 332-8288