Mesquite Tree Nursing Center

Mesquite Tree Nursing Center is located in Mesquite, Texas. The city has 140,703 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's subpar overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are seven other nursing homes in Mesquite. Nevertheless, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS 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 aren't the end of the world.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score is largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place averaged just 3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this area.

Another issue is the F this nursing home received in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are likely more important for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 29.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a poor score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.488495 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.