The Landing at Watermere

The Landing at Watermere is one of only two available facilities in Southlake, Texas. It looks like this is a fine facility. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable grade. Based on our ratings, this nursing home has quite a bit going for it. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

On top of performing well in its overall score, this facility received even higher grades in the area of long-term care. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of providing elite levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This percentage is also significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third category, this facility received a dominant short-term care score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Texas in this area with 63.9 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we looked at was nursing. This facility was given an above average nursing score in our assessment, with a grade of C. Even though this is not nearly as impressive as several of its other category grades, this remains a respectable grade for that category. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. With 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Finally, we also baked a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the areas we looked at, with below average marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are often accurate measures of the quality of nursing care offered.