Metroplex Nursing and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The next highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 29.694324 percent of its patients. This is several points below the national average. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. The nursing score features many datapoints. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is certainly a significant disappointment. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.