Focused Care of Gilmer
623 Hwy 155n, Gilmer TX 75644 · (903) 797-2143 · 58.62% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Focused Care of Gilmer is an average-sized nursing home located in Gilmer, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall score of F. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to steer clear of this place. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 87 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We just couldn't find anything good to say about this facility. It received a D in the category of inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best score. One of the more important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines recently in excess of $50,000. This often means that inspectors grew tired after several years of bad government inspections.
Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home's second highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last area we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This place fared better in this area, with 50.2 percent of its residents returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
In our next category, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of long-term care. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was not nearly as favorable. We found that this place had 2.55 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Nurse Quality
The next category we looked at was nursing. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in that area. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of components, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Focused Care of Gilmer Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of 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 percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better