Focused Care at Huntsville
1302 Nottingham St, Huntsville TX 77340 · (936) 295-6313 · 57.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Huntsville, Texas, Focused Care at Huntsville is one of just a few nursing homes in the city. We gave this facility an F, which is really a rock-bottom score in our grading scheme. Unfortunately, the city grade for Huntsville isn't too much better. Nevertheless, you still should be able to do better Surprisingly, this nursing home actually received one decent category grade in inspections, which you can find more information about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 88 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next most favorable score is long-term care, but it still earned just a D in that category. This is still a relatively poor grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 68.023254 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having some more complex patients. This was its best score in this category
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averaged just 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place was above average in two of the areas we considered, with good marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we rated was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 22.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Focused Care at Huntsville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which have sustained UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is 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 rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better