Highland Pines Nursing Home
1100 N 4th St, Longview TX 75601 · (903) 753-7661 · 70.43% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Highland Pines Nursing Home is located in Longview, Texas. This city has 102,348 people. This facility received an overall grade of F. Longview received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 137 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We really could not find anything positive to say about this nursing home. It received a lowly D in the area of short-term care. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best category. Our short-term care ratings are probably more meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this place provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. It performed better in this area, with 50.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. Inspection grades weigh many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home had 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 6 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was not nearly as favorable. We found that this place had 2.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing score quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Highland Pines Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This gauges the percentage of long-term residents who had falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better