Lexington Place Nursing & Rehabilitation

Lexington Place Nursing & Rehabilitation is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Fort Worth, Texas which has a population of 813,980 people. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. Even in a city with 37 nursing homes, this facility turns out to be a sound choice. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded it a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of A. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this nursing home a grade of D. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our final category, we awarded this facility a D for the area of short-term care. This was the facility's worst category grade. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 47.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these relatively poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.