The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center is in Houston, Texas. The city provides a variety of options. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of A+, resulting in it being ranked among the top three nursing homes in the city. We really couldn't find many negative things to say about this place. Its scores are impeccable. Keep reading to find this facility's category ratings, which also impressed us. You just can't do any better than a straight A profile.
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The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jul 1, 2021 by Nick Reese
Note: Data for The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center has not been updated recently. This page shows historical performance which may not be representitive of current service levels.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
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Awards
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are vital for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it an elite grade of A- for that category. This finished off this place's straight A report card. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 7.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 3.38% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 1.52% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents who suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 10.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 22.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 4.84% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 93.69% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 17.58% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 11.91 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Forum at Memorial Woods Healthcare Center, 66.29% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Houston, 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-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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