Lakewest Rehabilitation and Skilled Care
2450 Bickers St, Dallas TX 75212 · (214) 879-0888 · 82.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Lakewest Rehabilitation and Skilled Care is an average-sized facility located in Dallas, Texas. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. This facility is about as bad as it gets. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection rating. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively badly. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. With a grade this poor in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. The nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. We found that just 47.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was below the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
Another issue is the F this nursing home received in the area of long-term care. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.757576 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad since it had more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The final area we analyzed was nursing, in which this facility received a poor score in this category as well. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home offered only 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this facility received poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing scores. We found that more of this nursing home's patients experienced falls leading to major injury. We believe that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a terrible nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lakewest Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care residents which have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of poor nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
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 thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better