Cross Timbers Nursing and Senior Mental Health

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for this category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having deficiency data, it is a challenge to evaluate this facility in the area of inspections.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. There are several factors included in this grade. Most of the factors relate to staffing levels. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the third category, this nursing home also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we looked at is short-term care. This facility received a B- in the area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.