Forth Worth Wellness and Rehabilitation

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we gave this facility a grade of B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher grades. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.