Cherry Ridge of Cascadia

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an A. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home Idaho in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. With our short-term care score, we try to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This finished off an elite profile. Few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in every category. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 87.06896 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.