Quality Care of Waco
2501 Maple Ave, Waco TX 76707 · (254) 752-0311 · 42.02% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Quality Care of Waco is in Waco, Texas. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. 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 Waco. This facility's only redeeming quality is its inspection score, which you can find additional information on below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 202 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest score was short-term care, but even there it earned just a D in that area. This ended up being a relatively poor grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Given its poor score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here. In fact, we found that just 47 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was below the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 97.11286 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was far less favorable. We found that this facility had 2.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a concerning rate.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our last area, we gave this facility a D in nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category grade. Nursing scores are primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. This place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Quality Care of Waco Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered a fall resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be a sign worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better