Aspen Park of Cascadia
420 Rowe Street, Moscow ID 83843 · (208) 882-4576 · 62.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Aspen Park of Cascadia is a small facility in Moscow, Idaho. Sporting an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 25 best facilities in Idaho. As you can find below, this place performed equally well in our category grades. We give this place two thumbs up!
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 70 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, of which more than one hour of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is among the most highly trained levels of nurses. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its remarkable profile, this facility also was given a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.297295 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. This place was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the next area, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. We awarded it an A- in this category. This wrapped up truly elite profile. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Remarkably, this place provides roughly 50% more hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we assessed. This is usually a very favorable sign. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. It performed respectably with 48.5 percent of its residents able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aspen Park of Cascadia Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better