Everett Transitional Care Services

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home received impressive grades in the area of short-term care as well. Indeed, we gave it one of our most elite scores in that category with a area of A. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility earned a grade of B for its inspections rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Without information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to really assess the place in this category.

The last category we scored is long-term care. This facility was given a favorable long-term care score this year, with a B-. Even though this is not nearly as good as many of its other scores, this is still an acceptable rating in this area. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.