Caldwell Care of Cascadia

Although this nursing home's overall grade wasn't a highlight, it actually received a somewhat respectable grade in nursing. We awarded it a B- for that category. Our nursing grade features numerous factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not an impressive total. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

This facility's next best category ended up being its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. With our short-term care score, we seek to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

This nursing home's next best category is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.56332 percent of its residents. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Finally, this facility received a C. Inspection grades relate to a nursing home's government inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates that this facility dodged the more ominous categories of deficiencies. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.