Focused Care of Waxahachie

Located in Waxahachie, Texas, Focused Care of Waxahachie is one of just three available facilities in this area. Our grading system was not very kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. This facility doesn't seem to have any redeeming qualities. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category grades

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Remarkably, we awarded this facility a C for its long-term care score, which isn't too bad of a score. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for folks requiring more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Most of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we considered, with good marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These datapoints are generally reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 24.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.