Avamere Rehabilitation of Cascade Park
801 Southeast Park Crest Avenue, Vancouver WA 98683 · (360) 260-2200 · 96.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Avamere Rehabilitation of Cascade Park is one of six available facilities located in Vancouver, Washington. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires very strong scores across the board. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we rated it as one of the three best nursing homes in Vancouver. If you scroll down, you can see this nursing home's category scores, which are also quite good.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 88 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is more often than not a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. This place is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. It supplied about one and a half times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Washington in this area with 67.3 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the better figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility the nation. Avoiding serious falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is among our highest grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable nursing grade in our assessment, with a B. Even though this is not quite as strong as some of its other grades, this remains one of the stronger scores in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to providing well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.333336 percent of its patients. This statistic is also significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.69 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Avamere Rehabilitation of Cascade Park Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents which developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for treating a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better