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Christian Health Care Center

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Christian Health Care Center's website

855 Aaron Drive,
Lynden WA 98264

(360) 354-4434

58.45% estimated occupancy ¹

Note: Christian Health Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Christian Health Care Center is a large non-profit nursing home in Lynden, Washington. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. In our view, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Other
Secure Memory Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While we did not rate this facility well overall, we wanted to point out its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable grade of B- in that area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Nurse Quality

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. There are a host of subcategories included in this area. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Lastly, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's next highest category was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

The next area we assessed is long-term care, was this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.74214 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Christian Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Christian Health Care Center, 2.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Christian Health Care Center, 2.83% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents which have sustained a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Christian Health Care Center, 1.27% of Patients had UTIs

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents that had a urinary tract infection. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Christian Health Care Center, 7.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Christian Health Care Center, 8.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Christian Health Care Center, 35.33% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents showing symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Christian Health Care Center, 98.8% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Christian Health Care Center, 17.06% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Christian Health Care Center, 10.26% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility.

Hospitalizations

In Christian Health Care Center, 0.34 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Christian Health Care Center, 10.26% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Christian Health Care Center, 5.42% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Christian Health Care Center, 73.48% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

St Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.37 miles away2901 Squalicum Parkway Bellingham Washington 98225Voluntary non-profit - Other(360) 734-5400

Nearby Dialysis

Davita Mt Baker Kidney Center13.02 miles away410 Birchwood Suite 100 Bellingham Washington 98225CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 26 (360) 734-4243