Senior Care of Westwood

Senior Care of Westwood is a large facility located in Houston, Texas. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this category. Unfortunately, this proved to be one of its better grades. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 24.179104 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a few points below the national average. We were stunned with its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.41 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is definitely an alarming figure.

Our third area we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is often a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 34.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we scored was nursing, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.