Cascade Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.82609 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients more frequently.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we rated, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.