Focused Care at Beechnut
12777 Beechnut St, Houston TX 77072 · (281) 879-8040 · 80.34% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Focused Care at Beechnut is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Houston, Texas with a population of 2,906,700 people. This nursing home was awarded a somewhat concerning overall grade of D, which is a subpar rating. Fortunately, if you aren't satisfied with this facility, there are 65 nursing homes to choose from in the city so you should be able to find a better option. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 146 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the area of long-term care, with a grade of C. In determining our long-term care scores, we assess the personal care offered to the facility's residents. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.22222 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home was not too far off the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home's was given a low-end short-term care score where it received an F. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this facility provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 30.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the final category, this nursing home really didn't fare well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. We weighed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This place averaged only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing rating significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Focused Care at Beechnut Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better