Haskell Healthcare Center
1504 North First St, Haskell TX 79521 · (940) 864-8537 · 54.85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Haskell Healthcare Center is a facility located in Haskell, Texas, which has a population of 3,980 people. Featuring an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. Based on our ratings, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 68 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it received an A. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.65 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Facility Inspections
Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections category. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is significantly below the national average. On top of its below average nursing hours, this facility received poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing grade.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is obviously a major concern. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We found that this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 27.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Haskell Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care residents which sustained falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
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 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better