Dallas Retirement Village Health Center

On top of earning a strong overall score, this facility also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A. Our short-term care grades are important for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. There are several datapoints included in this area. Many of these criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another area of strength for this nursing home is in the area of inspections. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of C. This actually is this nursing home's worst category. This is still not a terrible score. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.92086 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. Finally, 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.