Meadow Lake Health Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.