Lawrence Street Health Care Center
615 Lawrence St, Tomball TX 77375 · (281) 357-4516 · 53.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Lawrence Street Health Care Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Tomball, Texas. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. Unfortunately, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Tomball, which is also well below average. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 150 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't give this place a good overall score, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's long-term care rating is one of its better features. The nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. In computing our long-term care grades, we analyze the personal care received by a nursing home's patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.07143 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 5.86 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Nurse Quality
We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. We assessed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This place provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Finally, while this nursing home didn't rank well in terms of nursing hours per resident, it fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we graded is short-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. In our short-term care category, we try to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We found that this facility was subpar in many staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 22.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lawrence Street Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint 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 is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better