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Brookdale Willowbrook Place

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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13500 Breton Ridge,
Houston TX 77070

(346) 536-9230

53.06% estimated occupancy 1

Brookdale Willowbrook Place is located in the large metropolitan area of Houston, Texas. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. Even in a city offering 60 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a perfectly acceptable choice. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Catheter Care
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

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Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

One of the reasons this facility performed well overall is that it excelled in nursing, with a B+ in that category. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. This facility was awarded a very positive long-term care grade, with a B in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The next category we rated was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. This nursing home didn't prove to have any weak grades. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Brookdale Willowbrook Place Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 2.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A+

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Better nursing care limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 3.64% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better nursing care minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 4.26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 20.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 1.96% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 98.44% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 20% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate the erosion of a patient's health.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 14.17% of Patients

This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In Brookdale Willowbrook Place, 58.7% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.

Scores for Houston, TX

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=676236