Cristwood Nursing and Rehabilitation
19301 Kings Garden Drive North, Seattle WA 98133 · (206) 546-7400 · 57.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Cristwood Nursing and Rehabilitation is a large non-profit nursing home located in Seattle, Washington. We gave this facility an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some decent scores. The nursing homes in Seattle received quality scores across the board with a city grade of a B. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 168 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. This salvaged its overall profile. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 73.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an A+. Our nursing score includes a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provided 5 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by these statistics. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in Washington in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third best area was long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. In determining these long-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to offering solid levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.297295 percent of its patients. This statistic is better than many nursing homes. 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.
Facility Inspections
The final category we looked at is inspections. This did not end up being one of this nursing home's stronger categories. We gave it just a D in this area. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we take this one very seriously. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility was assessed multiple category G through L deficiencies, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 5 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cristwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks 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 tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better