Columbia Lutheran Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Seattle, Washington. Featuring an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the better nursing homes in Seattle, which features some very solid nursing homes. You simply can't do any better than this place. As you will see below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category grades. In fact, we gave it straight A's!
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Columbia Lutheran Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its best category. In this area, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also want to point out the fact that this nursing home was given an elite grade of A- in our short-term care area. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was given a strong long-term care score. We gave it an A- in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Columbia Lutheran Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 7.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 2.29% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 13.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients which are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 12.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 13.28% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 92.89% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 14.67% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 18.81% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 18.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 12.21 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Columbia Lutheran Home, 75.22% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Seattle, WA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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