Fidalgo Care Center

Fidalgo Care Center is in Anacortes, Washington. The city has 20,429 people. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel overall grade based on the data we looked at. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Anacortes. Finally, there was an ownership change at this facility in the last year. Ideally, their performance will improve under new ownership.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall score, we awarded it a B- for short-term care. In our short-term care category, we seek to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation with 55.6 percent of its patients returning home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an C. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 1.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For nursing homes with bad inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 20 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The next category we graded is long-term care, in which this facility was given a very poor score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.