With more than 20 nursing homes to choose from located in Fort Worth, Texas, Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of the multitude of facilities in the city. This facility is a lower end facility. A score in this range suggests we found some red flags. Based on our assessment, this place likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.
Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
424 S Adams St,
Fort Worth TX 76104
60.74% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a somewhat respectable government inspection report this year. It received a decent score in that area with a B-. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. While this nursing home ranked poorly in terms of the quantity of nursing care available, it performed admirably in a few of our quality-based metrics. It was above average in two of the statistics we look at, with positive reviews for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are measures of the quality of nursing care provided since many bed sores and falls can be avoided.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this metric with 46.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the last area we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility did not fare quite as well here, with 2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This gauges the percentage of long-term residents who experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.63% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from a UTI. While more infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 22.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.7% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 95.06% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.37% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.98% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.58 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.91 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Downtown Health and Rehabilitation Center, 66.67% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Fort Worth, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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