Timber Ridge at Talus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Very few facilities received a better grade in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on our third category, this facility received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received a virtually flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. With this impressive grade, this place is one of the few facilities in Washington to receive straight A's. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.