Cottonwood Creek Healthcare Community
1111 W Shore Dr, Richardson TX 75080 · (972) 783-8000 · 68.39% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Cottonwood Creek Healthcare Community is an average-sized facility located in Richardson, Texas. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 106 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although this place's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also didn't fare terribly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be among its better scores. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.08 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of residents.
Short-term Care Quality
Another concern was the F this facility received in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 34.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we scored was nursing, where this nursing home received an abysmal score in this category also. We gave it an F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home offered just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This number is quite a bit below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cottonwood Creek Healthcare Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients which had a fall resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients that have experienced a urinary tract infection. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of 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
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better