Enumclaw Health & Rehab Center

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A+. There are numerous datapoints included in this area. Most of the factors relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. 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 nursing home the state 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 employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

This nursing home received strong marks in the area of short-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most favorable scores in that category with a score of A-. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also was given an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B in this area. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.02631 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Lastly, we looked at this facility's inspection rating This did not end up being one of this nursing home's better areas. We gave it a C in this category. This isn't a horrible score in this category. It simply wasn't as strong as some of this place's other grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. To our surprise, this place was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that inspectors identified a deficiency which placed patient safety or health in imminent danger. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.