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Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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630 South Pearl Street,
Tacoma WA 98465

(253) 671-7300

114.33% estimated occupancy 1

Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound is on a list of 10 options in Tacoma, Washington. We awarded this facility an impressive overall grade of A-. Indeed, we ranked it as the best facility in Tacoma. Based on our assessment, this facility is really as good as it gets. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category grades, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Contributing to its strong assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care grade, with a grade of A. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B

Furthermore, this nursing home also earned impressive inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The next area we rated was long-term care, in which this facility was given a B. While this ended up being its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless an above average grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 6.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A+

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls are often caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 5.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 16.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 3.57% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 92.19% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 13.79% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 9.86% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Avamere Transitional Care of Puget Sound, 74.68% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Scores for Tacoma, WA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

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Nearby Dialysis

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  • Lakewood Community Dialysis Center6.22 miles away5919 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd Sw #A Lakewood Washington 98499CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (253) 512-2400
  • Renal Care Group Northwest, Inc.6.56 miles away1415 E 72nd St Tacoma Washington 98404CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (253) 474-2310
  • Rainier View Dialysis Center6.89 miles away1822 112th St East Suite A Tacoma Washington 98445CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 10 (253) 539-5659
  • Parkland Dialysis Center7.48 miles away311 140th St S Tacoma Washington 98444CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (253) 536-5961