Brookdale Westlake Hills
1034 Liberty Park Dr, Austin TX 78746 · (512) 328-3775 · 70.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Brookdale Westlake Hills is an average-sized nursing home located in Austin, Texas. This facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we assessed. Being awarded an A+ in our rating system requires superb marks across the board. Indeed, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as one of the five best nursing homes in Austin. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. This facility's vaccination statistics were not as favorable as its nursing hours data. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.01299 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Fortunately, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care grade. This is a dominant score. Our short-term care scores are presumably most meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This place provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is definitely an encouraging sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 72.1 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
In the last category we rated, this nursing home was awarded a very strong grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed a straight A profile. When computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This particular facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brookdale Westlake Hills Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are often the result of lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better