Caldwell Care of Cascadia

We gave this facility one of our better grades in long-term care, where it received an A. This is a much better grade than its overall grade, which was decent but not elite. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.24779 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an impressive grade of B in our nursing category. Our nursing rating is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Idaho in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.

The third category we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In our last category of inspections, we gave this facility a D. This turned out to be this facility's worst grade and it really pulled its overall grade down. Our inspection grade is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Since the information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this place also has been assessed significant government fines in recent years.