The Heights of Tyler

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's weakest area was short-term care, which is the last area we scored. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Even with multiple respectable scores in other areas, this grade is still alarming so we wanted to make sure you are aware. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It looks like this facility was below average in several staffing metrics we assessed. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.