Briarcliff Health Center

Briarcliff Health Center is a facility located in Tyler, Texas, which has a population of 144,160 people. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. Tyler received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We were also stunned to learn that this facility received a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We gave it a grade of C in this area. With our long-term care score, we assess the volume of care provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of quality statistics. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 87.77373 percent of its residents. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is also below average.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.

Turning to our last category, this facility really did not perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. With a grade this poor in this area, we were not stunned to learn this facility was below average in several staffing areas we looked at. The nursing home offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 42.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.