Childress Healthcare Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Childress Healthcare Center's website

1200 7th St Nw,
Childress TX 79201

(940) 937-8668

33.5% estimated occupancy ¹

Childress Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Childress, Texas. This facility was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end score. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Childress. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home's long-term care score is one of its respectable grades. The facility was given a C in this category. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.013245 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Short-term Care Quality

Unfortunately, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care grade, which is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Considering its abysmal grade in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this place offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Nurse Quality

The last area we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a very poor score. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Childress Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Childress Healthcare Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Childress Healthcare Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Childress Healthcare Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents which had UTI's. While more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Childress Healthcare Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Childress Healthcare Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Childress Healthcare Center, 4.81% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression could be an indicator a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Childress Healthcare Center, 94.64% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Childress Healthcare Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Childress Healthcare Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Childress Healthcare Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.