Discovery Village At Southlake

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received strong marks in the area of long-term care as well. Indeed, we gave it one of our highest grades in that category with a area of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the final area we analyzed. For this area, we gave this facility a grade of just D. We would like to to point out this potential weak spot, but you shouldn't dwell on one area either. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. Although this facility did not excel in nursing hours, it actually surprised us in some of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this statistic, which is one redeeming quality we found in this category.