Northwest Health and Rehabilitation Center

Northwest Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Houston, Texas which has 2,906,700 people. This nursing home is a relatively poor nursing home. A grade in this range suggests we found some red flags. In our view, we'd struggle to recommend this facility. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the category of inspections, where it received an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's second highest area ended up being long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Long-term care scores are based in part on the facility's amount of care. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.591835 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.36 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too far off the national average.

This nursing home's second lowest score was short-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Not surprisingly based on its score in this area, this nursing home was subpar in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided significantly fewer registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 26.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. This facility was given a poor grade of F in that area. Our nursing grade includes several subcategories, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided a meager 3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this place earned poor marks in some of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that more of this nursing home's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing rating.