Cascade Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.34884 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Building on its high-end profile, this nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score, with a score of A. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another impressive feature for this place is its inspection rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an elite grade of A, completing its straight A performance. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.