River Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center
2416 Nw 18th St, Fort Worth TX 76106 · (817) 626-5454 · 66.08% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
River Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Fort Worth, Texas. This city is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a total of 813,980 people. Sporting an overall score of B-, this is likely a decent nursing home. In a city without an elite selection of nursing homes, this facility proved to be better than most of the alternatives in Fort Worth. The best part of this facility's profile was its stellar inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS 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.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, with top notch grade of A in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.15152 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home was just about middle of the road in this area.
Nurse Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility was above average in two of the major datapoints we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we analyzed is short-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This is one of just a couple of dings in a strong profile. In determining these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last area we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared better in this area, with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
River Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients which have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates 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 tells you the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better