The Terrace at Denison

The Terrace at Denison is a small nursing home located in Denison, Texas. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade of this caliber typically indicates a few concerning datapoints. At the end of the day, we would struggle to recommend this place. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't give this place a good overall score, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it received a B+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The second most favorable category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In determining these long-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's personal care services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 75.193794 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we were hoping for. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. This facility did not excel here either, with 3.09 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of residents.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Our nursing grade consists of quite a few datapoints, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this facility had really bad marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.

The next area we rated is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a rock bottom grade. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 28.6 percent of its patients returning home.