Buena Vista Healthcare

Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

151 Buena Vista Drive,
Colville WA 99114

82.75% estimated occupancy ¹

Buena Vista Healthcare is a small nursing home in Colville, Washington. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a very strong facility. In fact, this facility is one of the top 50 facilities in Washington. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Nurse Quality

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which more than one hour of these hours were provided by registered nurses. This is among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

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Short-term Care Quality

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a of A in that area. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This facility elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses than the average facility. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. It performed as well as just about any facility in Washington with 56.8 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, less than half of their short-stay patients return home.

Long-term Care Quality

The last category we looked at is this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of C in our long-term care category. In computing our long-term care grades, we size up the personal care received by the nursing home's residents. After considering the very respectable amount of nursing care provided by this facility, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.77419 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than many nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Buena Vista Healthcare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 6.84% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 3.14% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 2.25% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 13.73% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 12.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 14.66% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 93.57% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 13.88% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 23.08% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 0.95 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 23.08 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 11.09 Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Buena Vista Healthcare, 73.77% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

Providence Mount Carmel HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.87 miles away982 East Columbia Colville Washington 99114Voluntary non-profit - Church(509) 684-2561

Nearby Dialysis

Echo Valley Dialysis1.42 miles away198 Ponderosa Rd Colville Washington 99114Dialysis Stations: 6 (509) 684-2285
Fmc Colville2.33 miles away147 Garden Homes Dr Colville Washington 99114Dialysis Stations: 8 (509) 684-3979