Cross Timbers Nursing and Rehabiliation

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it ended up being challenging to really evaluate the place in this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility the country in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we scored was short-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B-. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of 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. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.