Willowbend Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Mesquite, Texas, Willowbend Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is one of eight facilities in the city. We awarded this facility a very respectable overall score of B. Indeed, it is one of the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility performed well in the category of long-term care. As a result, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive scores. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. The last datapoint we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.42 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of patients.

This facility's third most favorable area was its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This place performed well with 62.5 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final area we looked at. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. In spite of a few strong scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we wanted to draw your attention to it. When determining our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. While this facility did not excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding serious falls. This place was better than average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this area.