Pathways Memory Care at Villa Toscana

Pathways Memory Care at Villa Toscana is an average-sized nursing home located in Houston, Texas. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. Keep in mind that Houston received a city grade of B-, so should consider some other options in the city as well. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our short-term care rating. In our short-term care score, we seek to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.4 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an C. The nursing grade weighs quite a few datapoints, but the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Sadly, this facility's third best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared somewhat poorly. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.53917 percent of its patients. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was far less favorable. Here we found that this place had 2.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be our most heavily weighted category in our grading system. For places with poor inspection scores, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to residents. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.