Senior Care of West Oaks
3200 W. Slaughter Lane, Austin TX 78748 · (512) 282-0141 · 77.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Senior Care of West Oaks is a large nursing home in Austin, Texas. We gave this nursing home a C overall, which isn't a bad score. This is comparable with the city grade in Austin, which is a B-. Based on our ratings, there are definitely much worse facilities out there. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its stellar inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 125 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we gave this facility a B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our better grades. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.0867 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.55 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second lowest score is short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average score. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We were surprised to find that it performed better in this area, with 58.3 percent of its patients returning home. This was just about this nursing home's sole highlight in this area.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home did not perform very well. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's worst grade. In determining our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this metric. This is concerning when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a very weak nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Senior Care of West Oaks Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better