Brightpointe at Lytle Lake
1201 Clarks Dr, Abilene TX 79602 · (325) 670-9293 · 71.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Brightpointe at Lytle Lake is located in Abilene, Texas. The city has a multitude of options. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. This is one of the bottom five rated nursing homes in Abilene based on the data we assessed. With many other facilities in the city, you should be able to do better. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
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
Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to highlight here. Its best category was long-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still not a good grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable figure. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less impressive than its vaccination record.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. One of the most significant factors in evaluating inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed one category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. Finally, this facility also received 12 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home offered a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hour totals, this place received suboptimal scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients experienced falls which led to serious injury.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was short-term care, in which this facility was given an abysmal score here also. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely a major concern. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 44.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brightpointe at Lytle Lake Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better