Kirkwood Manor is a senior living facility in New Braunfels, Texas, a city with a population of 78,685 people. It looks like this facility is a subpar nursing home. A score in this range suggests we found some red flags. As far as we can see, we would struggle to recommend this nursing home. Nevertheless, this facility did just fine in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Kirkwood Manor
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that have too many deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. In spite of this deficiency, this place still received a relatively favorable report.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually wound up as its second most favorable category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. With its grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
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Long-term Care Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 99.43977 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
The next area we looked at was nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal grade in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. There are several factors within this area. Many of these data points reflect nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kirkwood Manor Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Kirkwood Manor, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Kirkwood Manor, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Kirkwood Manor, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Kirkwood Manor, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Kirkwood Manor, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Kirkwood Manor, 4.81% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Kirkwood Manor, 94.64% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Kirkwood Manor, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Kirkwood Manor, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Kirkwood Manor, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Kirkwood Manor, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Kirkwood Manor, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Kirkwood Manor, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for New Braunfels, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of D
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? New Braunfels, Texas has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Resolute Health HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.11 miles away555 Creekside Xing, New Braunfels Texas 78130Proprietary(469) 839-6778
- Central Texas Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.74 miles away1301 Wonder World Drive San Marcos Texas 78666Voluntary non-profit - Private(512) 753-3690
- Guadalupe Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.99 miles away1215 E Court St Seguin Texas 78155Voluntary non-profit - Other(830) 379-2411
Nearby Dialysis
- New Braunfels Dialysis2.03 miles away798 Generations Drive New Braunfels Texas 78130CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (830) 629-2848
- New Braunfels Kidney Disease Clinic2.38 miles away1561 Ih 35 North New Braunfels Texas 78130Dialysis Stations: 18 (830) 606-0333
- Rsa Schertz10.72 miles away5000 Baptist Health Dr Suite 124 Schertz Texas 78154Dialysis Stations: 16 (210) 659-6070
- Fresenius Medical Care of West Seguin14.79 miles away757 West Court Seguin Texas 78155CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (830) 379-1801
- Sakdc Davita Dialysis Partners Lp15.49 miles away15619 Nacogdoches Rd San Antonio Texas 78247Dialysis Stations: 24 (210) 653-9579
- Seguin Dialysis15.5 miles away618 E Court St Seguin Texas 78155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (830) 372-2521
- Nna San Marcos15.74 miles away1340 Wonder World Drive Suite 4100 San Marcos Texas 78666CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (512) 878-2420
- Fmc - Village Oaks Kidney Disease Clinc16.21 miles away11701 Toepperwein Rd San Antonio Texas 78233CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (210) 655-4005