West Janisch Health Care Center is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Houston, Texas. We awarded this facility a strong overall rating of B+. After analyzing the other choices in Houston, this seems to be a slightly higher quality choice than many of them. Even in a city offering 60 nursing homes, this one jumped off the page as a very fine selection. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
West Janisch Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 80.861244 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's weakest area. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
West Janisch Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. More frequent bathing minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term care patients which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 4.81% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 94.64% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In West Janisch Health Care Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Houston, 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 B-plus
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