Colonial Vista Post-Acute & Rehab Center
625 Okanogan, Wenatchee WA 98801 · (509) 663-1171 · 70.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Colonial Vista Post-Acute & Rehab Center is an average-sized facility in Wenatchee, Washington. After receiving an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 25 best facilities in Washington. As you can find below, this place also performed well in our category grades. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. It performed as well as just about any facility with 70.8 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Facility Inspections
Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This place received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was this facility's poorest category. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would likely be a strength for most nursing homes. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. While we determined this nursing home has a favorable amount of nursing care provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be a bit low. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.83412 percent of its residents. This is one figure we would really like to see this nursing home bring up. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.56 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Vista Post-Acute & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better