Las Colinas Post Acute

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This grade is much more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's better category scores came in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are important for prospective residents requiring personal care. We were unable to find a few metrics in determining this place's long-term care grade, so this grade may not be quite as accurate as our other category scores.

This nursing home's third most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is generally a useful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we scored was nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. The nursing score is based on a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.