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Brookdale Spicewood Springs

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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4401 Spicewood Springs Rd,
Austin TX 78759

(512) 418-8822

55.21% estimated occupancy 1

Brookdale Spicewood Springs is a small facility in Austin, Texas. Sporting an overall rating of A, this is undoubtedly an elite nursing home. Not surprisingly, this turned out to be one of the five highest graded facilities in the city. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category ratings, which appear to be just as strong as its overall grade.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Texas Awards 2019

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS 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 an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. Short-term care scores are crucial for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Moving on our third area, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. This is a very strong grade. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.74468 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

Moving on to our next area, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing score. We gave it a grade of A- in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Brookdale Spicewood Springs Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 15.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 21.28% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 4.65% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 4.26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 25% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly used to treat patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 11.63% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 81.21% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 11.54% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 12.94% of Patients

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

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Brookdale Spicewood Springs, 62.31% of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.

Scores for Austin, 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
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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