Senior Care of Green Oaks

Senior Care of Green Oaks is located in the large metropolitan area of Arlington, Texas. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Arlington, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still may be able to find a better option If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was awarded impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Texas in this metric with 63.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home's received a low-end long-term care grade where it received a lowly F. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal 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 assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 97.1875 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.72 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad since it had some more complicated patients.

The next area we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in that area. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.