Founders Plaza Nursing & Rehab

Founders Plaza Nursing & Rehab is an average-sized government-owned facility in Wylie, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade of this caliber typically indicates a few concerning datapoints. At the end of the day, we would struggle to recommend this place. This nursing home's only redeeming feature was its inspection score, which we provide additional information on below.

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the 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.

Sadly, this nursing home's second highest score was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. In our short-term care score, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly based on its grade in this category, this place was well below average in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered far fewer registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 44.5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. The nursing grade is based on a handful of factors, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is well below average. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this facility had really poor marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The next area we graded was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area also. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 86.80352 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.