Avamere Olympic Rehabilitation of Sequim

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this area. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is among the higher totals of nursing hours we were able to find. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any facility the state. Preventing serious falls is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.

This facility received high scores in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most elite scores in that category with a area of A. In determining these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it offered much more care from registered nurses than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 56.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. Inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this area, we awarded this facility a D. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of offering respectable levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.50249 percent of its residents. These marks are notably more impressive than a few of its other marks in this category. To our surprise, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.