Meadow Lake Health Center
16044 County Road 165, Tyler TX 75703 · (903) 526-5599 · 123.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Meadow Lake Health Center is a very-small facility in Tyler, Texas. With an overall rating of C, this is a solid nursing home. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
It should be noted that this facility's inspection grade outpaced its overall grade. We awarded it a grade of B+ for its inspections grade, which is a very solid score. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a respectable score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. 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. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this area. It performed well in this area with 57.3 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third best area ended up being its long-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. Our long-term care ratings are more important for individuals needing more conventional assistance associated with personal care. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as favorable some of the other datapoints in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 67.567566 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next category we rated was nursing. This nursing home received a grade of C for this category. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility surpassed the national average. We also look at the qualifications of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in many of the major metrics we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meadow Lake Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room 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 care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better