Patriot Heights Health Care Center
5000 Fawn Meadow, San Antonio TX 78240 · (210) 696-6005 · 53.24% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Patriot Heights Health Care Center is a small nursing home located in San Antonio, Texas. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility, which is the most impressive rating. Based on our analysis, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category ratings, which are just as strong as its overall score.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 74 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few 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 the inspectors 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.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in several of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable measures of the quality of nursing care a nursing home offers.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home performed remarkably in our long-term care rating as well. We awarded them an exemplary score of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of providing well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.765434 percent of its patients. This percentage is also significantly better than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 53.7 percent of its residents returning home. This is a better rate than most nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Patriot Heights Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term care residents who are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures 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 metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better