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Western Hills Healthcare Residence

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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400 Old Sidney Rd,
Comanche TX 76442

(325) 356-2571

34.81% estimated occupancy ¹

Western Hills Healthcare Residence is a large nursing home located in Comanche, Texas. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You can definitely do worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's report card was its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Respite Care

Specialized Services

Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility also received high marks in the category of long-term care, with a very impressive grade of A- in this category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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Nurse Quality

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. The nursing grade includes several factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

Turning to the last area, this facility really didn't perform well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is its poorest grade. In our short-term care grade, we try to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in many staffing areas we assessed. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Western Hills Healthcare Residence Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 3% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 1.19% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 21.71% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 41.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 0.61% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 100% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 15.08% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the decline of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 9.22% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that maintained mobility. Some believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 9.22% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Western Hills Healthcare Residence, 72.34% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.