Experiential Analysis on Trail Lake Nursing and Rehab Center

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, less solidly wealthy population. 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.

Its overall rating from the CMS of the Dpt of Health and Human Services on May 6th 2010 was average in its receipt of 3 out of 5 stars. Based on health inspection, nursing home staffing, and quality measures, the Nursing Home achieved median status. Its strengths are that it possesses an above average registered nurse per resident per day of 26 minutes compared to the Texas state nursing home average of minutes.

Also positive is the fact that they had eight deficits in the past two inspections compared to the Texas average of 13 deficits. On the other hand, they had six complaints lodged against them compared to the Texas average of four. They also had 12 fire safety deficiencies in the past two state inspections, and this exceeds the Texas state nursing home average of 11.

These blots on its record may impede it from attracting a wider clientele, but with word-of-mouth reputation -- and this it can only gain by devoted, dedicated, and consistent customer service, it may be enabled to attract despite its detrimental. Extra care must be taken to ensure that potential fire hazards are take care of. Focus can also be placed on its merits -- such as its skilled and dedicated nursing service -- rather than on its demerits.

Once having done so, and accruing more capital, the nursing home can then turn to polishing its image, and to settling itself more securely as a reputable and well-respected place that would be ideal for placing one's beloved in hen they reach a certain.