Despite Staffing crisis, long term care facilities in Texas improving
Contact: Jim Suydam, 512-542-9955
Despite staffing crisis, long term care facilities in Texas improving
State association commends providers for accomplishing national quality goals, urges lawmakers to support them
(AUSTIN, TEXAS) — The Texas Health Care Association today recognized 57 long term care facilities across the state for meeting national goals to improve their quality of care. Each facility met at least four of eight goals set by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living’s Quality Initiative Recognition Program, including reducing the use of antipsychotic medications, reducing rehospitalizations or improving levels of customer satisfaction.
“This recognition was hard-earned by the frontline staff who dedicate themselves to their residents,” said Kevin Warren, president and CEO of the Texas Health Care Association. “Long term care facilities in Texas continue to do more with less every day. Just imagine what they could do with adequate support from the state.”
Texas nursing homes struggle with one of the lowest Medicaid reimbursement rates in the nation. This keeps wages low for nurses and other frontline staff, and is responsible for turnover rates of more than 90 percent a year that nursing homes across the state struggle with every day.
Launched in 2012 by AHCA/NCAL, the quality initiative serves as a national effort to build upon the existing work of the long term and post-acute care profession. The initiative aims to further improve quality of care in skilled nursing centers and assisted living communities by challenging member facilities to meet measurable goals.
“This achievement overall represents not only improvement on a set of quality measures in these centers, but also significant improvements in outcomes among the elderly they serve, such as fewer hospitalizations, more discharges back to the community, and stopping the use of antipsychotics that can be harmful,” said Dr. David Gifford, AHCA/NCAL senior vice president of quality and regulatory affairs. “We applaud these organizations for making a difference in the lives of their patients and residents.”
Program achievers will be honored at the AHCA/NCAL Quality Summit in New Orleans, March 12-14, 2018. For more information about the quality initiative, skilled nursing centers can visit the AHCA website.
The 57 Texas long term care facilities to be recognized for their achievements through the Quality Initiative Recognition Program are:
| Avalon Place/Trinity | Trinity | TX |
| Baybrooke Village Care and Rehabilitation Center | McKinney | TX |
| Brentwood Terrace Health and Rehabilitation | Paris | TX |
| Briarcliff Health Center of Tyler | Tyler | TX |
| Brookdale Lakeway | Lakeway | TX |
| Brookdale Place Willowbrook | Houston | TX |
| Brookdale Westlake Hills | Austin | TX |
| Brownfield Rehabilitation and Care Center | Brownfield | TX |
| Burleson Saint Joseph Manor | Caldwell | TX |
| Chisholm Trail Nursing and Rehabilitation | Lockhart | TX |
| Creekside Terrace Rehabilitation | Belton | TX |
| Cross Timbers Rehabilitation and Health Care Canter | Flower Mound | TX |
| Cuero Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Cuero | TX |
| Elgin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Elgin | TX |
| Garnet Hill Rehabilitation and Skilled Care | Wylie | TX |
| Granbury Rehabilitation and Nursing Center | Granbury | TX |
| Gulf Health Care Center | Port Arthur | TX |
| Hallettsville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center | Hallettsville | TX |
| Harlingen Nursing and Rehabilitation | Harlingen | TX |
| Heartland Health Care Center | Fort Worth | TX |
| Heartland of San Antonio | San Antonio | TX |
| Heritage Oaks West Retirement Village | Corsicana | TX |
| Heritage Plaza NC Texarkana | Texarkana | TX |
| Holmgreen Center at Trinity Towers | Corpus Christi | TX |
| Mira Vista Court | Fort Worth | TX |
| Mission Nursing Home | Mission | TX |
| Monument Hill Rehabilitation and Nursing Center | La Grange | TX |
| Normandy Terrace Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center | San Antonio | TX |
| Oakland Manor Nursing Center | Giddings | TX |
| Oakmont Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center | Katy | TX |
| Park Manor of Conroe | Conroe | TX |
| Pathways Memory Care at Villa Toscana | Houston | TX |
| Pine Grove Nursing Center | Center | TX |
| Querencia at Barton Creek | Austin | TX |
| Retama Manor Nursing Center | Weslaco | TX |
| Reunion Plaza Senior Care Center | Tyler | TX |
| Reunion Plaza Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center | Texarkana | TX |
| Ridgecrest Retirement and Health Care Community | Waco | TX |
| S.P.J.S.T. Senior Living Community | Taylor | TX |
| San Gabriel Rehabilitation and Care Center | Round Rock | TX |
| SCC at Valley Grande | Brownsville | TX |
| The Heights of Gonzales | Gonzales | TX |
| The Heights of Tyler | Tyler | TX |
| The Homestead of Sherman | Sherman | TX |
| The Renaissance at Kessler Park | Dallas | TX |
| The Villages on MacArthur | Irving | TX |
| Town East Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center | Mesquite | TX |
| Treviso Transitional Care | Longview | TX |
| Ussery Roan Texas State Veterans Home | Amarillo | TX |
| Villa Toscana at Cypress Woods | Houston | TX |
| West Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation | Houston | TX |
| Whitehall Nursing Center | Crockett | TX |
| William R. Courtney Texas State Veterans Home | Temple | TX |
| Windsor Atrium | Harlingen | TX |
| Windsor Quail Valley Post Acute Healthcare Center | Missouri City | TX |
| Winfield Nursing Center | Crockett | TX |
| Yorktown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Yorktown | TX |
About THCA
Founded in 1950, the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) is the largest long term care association in Texas. THCA’s membership is comprised of several hundred licensed nonprofit and for-profit skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), specialized rehabilitation facilities and assisted living facilities in Texas. These facilities provide comprehensive, around-the-clock nursing care for chronically ill or short-term residents of all ages, along with rehabilitative and specialized medical programs. THCA also represents more than 190 long term care businesses that provide products and services to the state’s approximately 2,850 nursing homes and assisted living facilities. To learn more, visit http://txhca.org/ or connect with THCA on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
ABOUT AHCA/NCAL
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) represent more than 13,500 nonprofit and proprietary skilled nursing centers, assisted living communities, subacute centers, and homes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. By delivering solutions for quality care, AHCA/NCAL aims to improve the lives of the millions of frail, elderly and individuals with disabilities who receive long term or post-acute care in our member facilities each day. For more information, please visit www.ahca.org or www.ncal.org.
###