Memorial City Health and Rehabilitation Center
1341 Blalock, Houston TX 77055 · (713) 468-7821 · 76.47% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Memorial City Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Houston, Texas. This city is among the largest metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 2,906,700 people. This is a good facility with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Houston. In spite of Houston featuring 65 other nursing homes to choose from, this facility should be a respectable selection. The best part of this place's report card is its exemplary inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 187 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider 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.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given strong long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 82.844246 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Fortunately, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is frequently a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 54.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we looked at. In this category, we gave this facility a D. The nursing score consists of quite a few components, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic dragged down this nursing home's nursing grade substantially.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Memorial City Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who have sustained UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better