The Waterton Healthcare & Rehabilitation

The Waterton Healthcare & Rehabilitation is a small facility in Tyler, Texas. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 13 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a C in that area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is more often than not a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 54.5 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

This facility didn't receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it received just a D for its inspection rating, which was unfortunately its second best category. Our inspection ratings weigh many items found on the facility's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our long-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 98.9011 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility did not perform quite as well here, with 1.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The last area we scored is nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a poor score. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.