The Meadows of Orange
4201 Fm 105, Orange TX 77630 · (409) 883-8803 · 63.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Meadows of Orange is one of just a couple facilities located in Orange, Texas. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This facility is just about as bad as it gets. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a B. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be among its better scores. With our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.
Long-term Care Quality
We were also stunned to discover that this nursing home earned a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care grade is used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
The next area we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home was given a poor grade in this category as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. With just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Meadows of Orange 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