Cascadia of Lewiston

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third category, this facility was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in that area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we graded is nursing, where this nursing home received an A. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Only a select few facilities earned an A- or better in in each area we assessed. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.