Senior Care of Onion Creek is a nursing home located in Austin, Texas which has 940,359 people. This nursing home was given an overall grade of C, which is a solid score. In our view, this facility is a solid choice for quite a few people. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Senior Care of Onion Creek
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
1700 Onion Creek Pkwy,
Austin TX 78748
74.32% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, with a superb grade of A- in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.50814 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded just a D in that area. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. 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 item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed better in this area, with 56.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final area we assessed is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. This is certainly a significant disappointment. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. With just 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place had really poor marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Senior Care of Onion Creek Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 7.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care patients that have pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 3.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients who sustained a fall resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 1.63% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who have had a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 11.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 22.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 4.7% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression may imply a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 95.06% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 17.37% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 17.98% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility. Many argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 1.58 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 17.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Senior Care of Onion Creek, 66.67% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Austin, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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