Renaissance Park Multi Care Center

Renaissance Park Multi Care Center is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Fort Worth, Texas with a population of 813,980 people. With an overall score of B-, this appears to be a respectable facility. Even in a city of 37 nursing homes, this nursing home looks like a respectable selection. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This place is above average in terms of both its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Texas in this area with 58 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Our nursing score weighs a host of subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

The final area we looked at was long-term care. It received a lowly F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is certainly a major disappointment. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.242424 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.