Ventana by Buckner is a small non-profit nursing home in Dallas, Texas. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive ratings. In fact, we ranked this nursing home as the seventh best nursing home in Dallas. We also gave this nursing home phenomenal scores in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.
Ventana by Buckner
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Compounding its dominant achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 80.95238 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we anticipated. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In calculating our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a patient more often.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home also performed well in the short-term care category. We gave it a B+ for that area. This topped off a first-rate report card. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It does not appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ventana by Buckner Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ventana by Buckner, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ventana by Buckner, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ventana by Buckner, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ventana by Buckner, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ventana by Buckner, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ventana by Buckner, 4.81% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents exhibiting signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ventana by Buckner, 94.64% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ventana by Buckner, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ventana by Buckner, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ventana by Buckner, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ventana by Buckner, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ventana by Buckner, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Dallas, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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