Cascadia of Nampa

On top of faring well overall, this facility earned an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an A in that area. In our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.1342 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Racking up yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category, this nursing home also received a very strong nursing score, with a grade of B+. This rounded out a first-rate profile. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.