Aspen Park of Cascadia

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home performed well in long-term care. We awarded it an impressive grade of A for that category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing score analyzes several datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. This completed a first-rate profile. Our short-term care grades are probably most meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.