Willow Rehab & Nursing is located in Kilgore, Texas, a city with 24,536 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some decent scores. This nursing home seems to have a few things working in its favor. This facility didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it didn't receive any rock-bottom grades either. Additional information about these categories is available below.
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Willow Rehab & Nursing
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Short-term Care Quality
We want to note that this facility earned a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is long-term care, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this facility an D for the area of long-term care. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Willow Rehab & Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 16.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term care patients who have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 5.05% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure measures the percent of long-term care patients which suffered falls which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 0.39% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of long-term residents who have suffered from UTI's. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this datapoint can be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 4.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 19.43% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 2.33% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 99.24% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 14.94% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 11.66% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 11.66% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 24.07% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Willow Rehab & Nursing, 83.1% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Christus Good Shepherd Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.9 miles away700 E Marshall Ave Longview Texas 75601Voluntary non-profit - Private(903) 927-6712
- Longview Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.7 miles away2901 N Fourth St Longview Texas 75605Proprietary(903) 758-1818
Nearby Dialysis
- Trc Kilgore Dialysis Center2.21 miles away209 Hwy 42 North Kilgore Texas 75662CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (903) 988-8200
- Renal Treatment Center - Southeast Lp11.54 miles away3110 H G Mosley Pkwy Longview Texas 75605CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (430) 240-8224
- Fourth Street Dialysis13.85 miles away3101 North 4th St Suite B Longview Texas 75605Dialysis Stations: 13 (903) 234-0112
- Henderson Dialysis Center14.86 miles away1002 Hwy 79 North Henderson Texas 75652CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (903) 655-6922