Avista Nursing and Rehab

While this nursing home earned a decent overall score, its inspections score is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a B+. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also was awarded a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in that category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating analyzes many factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.

The final category we scored was long-term care. We awarded this facility a D for our long-term care category, leaving this as its weakest category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.91697 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.