Canterbury House
502 29th Street Southeast, Auburn WA 98002 · (253) 939-0090 · 81.29% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Canterbury House is in Auburn, Washington. The city has a total of 103,374 people. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Auburn. The city has just three other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Even though we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our short-term care grade. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed most nursing homes in the nation with 50.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this facility favorable marks in the area of nursing care, where it received a grade of B. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
Among this nursing home's worst category grades was a lowly F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 14 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home didn't fare very well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 80.41667 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit less than what we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Canterbury House Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who have had a fall leading to major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term care patients which are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression. Increased rates of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better