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Trail Lake Nursing & Rehabilitation in Fort Worth Texas has an 85% occupancy rate with 102 residents who use its 120 beds. They are an independent for Profit nursing home that accepts both Medicare and Medicaid. Their patient care is administered by registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nurse aids.
Consumers may experience this setting as friendly and down-to-earth, offering individualized protective care. Services include skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, IV therapy, Hydration, medication administration, Entereal feedings, wound care, X-ray, activities, social services, and physicians' services.
The setting seems air-filled, broad, and inviting. Plain whitewashed walls, with some paintings interspersed here and there, simple wood paneling in a few spots, ivory colored carpeting, glass doors, infrequent floor-to-ceiling windows, and broad unvarnished corridors give the place breadth and a sense of space. The rooms seem cute and comfortable. Women, perhaps, may feel more comfortable here than males. I say this due to the fact that pink seems to be the overwhelming color down from bedspreads to floor displays, to draperies, armchairs, couches, and chairs.
The Home seems to go out of its way to make its residents comfortable. At the same time, it seems to be struggling with finances possibly due to the fact that its clientele seem to come from a more middle-class,...
Indications that the Home is suffering come from its plain, although comfortable, furnishings and understated environment, as well as from its incomplete and simple website.
The Home appeals to a certain kind of client. Its inordinate stress on religion -- evidenced, for instance, in their often articulating the hope that their work brings 'glory to God' and their placing God in capitalized letters all the way through may be uncomfortable to many. To their clients it apparently appeals. I also found them less than professional in other ways, too. They are, as they say, locally owned and operated -- not part of a large chain of facilities, and, seem to lack the training and business sense that would make them savvy, sophisticated, and culturally able to work in a world that is business and corporate centered. On the other hand, this may be an endearing element to those who are tired of this materialistic and capitalistic world of ours.
By being locally-owned, effusive, unpolished, and with their emphasis on pink and God, as well as with all their grammatical and spelling errors found on their site, they may just about appeal to the particular clientele whom they promise personalized care to during their short-term rehabilitation in their center.
When compared to the nursery homes in its locality, Trail Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has both advantages and disadvantages.…
References
Trail Lake. Home. http://www.traillakenursing.com/
Trail Lake Nursing & Rehabilitation. Ucompare Health Care.
http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/nhs/texas/trail_lake_nursing__rehabilitation.html
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