Avamere Transitional Care & Rehab - Boise
1001 South Hilton Street, Boise ID 83705 · (208) 345-4464 · 56.21% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Avamere Transitional Care & Rehab - Boise is on a list of 12 facilities in Boise, Idaho. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. Based on the data we reviewed, there are certainly far worse facilities out there. The best part of this nursing home's report card was is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 111 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing score assesses several components, but the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, nearly one fourth of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly trained levels of nurses. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the country.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received strong short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this nursing home's favorable score in this category is it provides more care from registered nurses than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 34 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our last category, this facility really did not fare well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is this facility's weakest grade. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. With a long-term care grade in this range, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that this nursing home fared reasonably well in both of these statistics. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 99.51923 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.65 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Avamere Transitional Care & Rehab - Boise Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better