Rockwall Nursing Care Center
206 Storrs, Rockwall TX 75087 · (972) 771-5000 · 48.64% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Rockwall Nursing Care Center is a large nursing home located in Rockwall, Texas. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 192 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
This place fared well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.4127 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.88 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility is just about middle of the road in this area.
Facility Inspections
Interestingly, this nursing home's awful overall score can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of C for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This place had 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This means that this facility avoided the more ominous classes of deficiencies. Finally, they also received 2 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.
Nurse Quality
Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This facility provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Although this place didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this facility really didn't perform very well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 25.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Rockwall Nursing 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
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower 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