Estates Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Estates Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is in Fort Worth, Texas, which has an abundance of nursing homes. Our rating scheme was not kind to this facility, as we gave it an overall rating of F. This facility did not have any redeeming qualities. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this place received a decent grade in the area of long-term care. You can find more information about this category below.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on 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 patient safety. Surprisingly, this nursing home was hit with a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This often tells you that the government inspectors uncovered a deficiency which placed patient safety or health in imminent jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Sadly, this nursing home's second best score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.46193 percent of its residents, which is a very solid percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third best category is short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. We found that just 48.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we looked at was nursing, where this facility was given a rock bottom score in this category as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously very concerning. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To pair with its low total nursing hours per patient, this facility had bad scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents having falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.