Christian Care Center
1000 Wiggins Pkwy, Mesquite TX 75150 · (972) 686-3000 · 47.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Christian Care Center is one of eight available facilities in Mesquite, Texas. With an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is one of the better nursing homes we assessed. Not surprisingly, this turned out to be the best facility in the city. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category ratings, which are also quite good.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category, where it earned an A. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. This nursing home performed much better in the final datapoint we considered in this category, which was the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Texas in this area with 65.5 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is based on several subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is far better than what is offered by most nursing homes. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any facility in Texas.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home received a strong long-term care grade. Even though this isn't as good as some of its other category grades, this is still one of our stronger grades a facility can receive. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 96.10895 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Christian Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that 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 erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient 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 is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better