With an address in Dallas, Texas, Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community is on a list of 32 possibilities this area. This facility appears to be ranked among the higher-graded nursing homes we assessed. A grade in this range requires first-rate marks across the board. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong with this facility. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category ratings, which are also impressive.
Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
14655 Preston Rd,
Dallas TX 75254
54.92% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home was awarded a dominant grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 67.1 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 89.583336 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.96 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a better than average nursing score this year, with a grade of B. Although this is not as dominant as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive grades in this category. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 7.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 3.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 1.63% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 11.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 22.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 4.7% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 95.06% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 17.37% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 17.98% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 1.58 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 17.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 11.91 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Signature Pointe on the Lake Healthcare Community, 66.67% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Dallas, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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