The Heights of North Houston
303 Hollow Tree Lane, Houston TX 77090 · (832) 705-8700 · 89.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With over 25 nursing homes to choose from having an address in Houston, Texas, The Heights of North Houston is one of many choices here. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. Keep in mind that Houston received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. In spite of all this, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 131 Beds
CCRC :
Government - Hospital district
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. The lack of deficiencies proved to be this place's greatest strength.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's second best score is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 69.90881 percent of its patients. Lastly, we were stunned by the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home fared very poorly with 4.24 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is more than double the national average.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered only 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the major datapoints we focus on, with solid marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was short-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in that area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Given its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse hours offered to its patients. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 30 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Heights of North Houston Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better