Franklin Hills Health & Rehab Center
6021 North Lidgerwood, Spokane WA 99207 · (509) 489-3323 · 70.9% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Franklin Hills Health & Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Spokane, Washington. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong short-term care score. You can scroll down to find out about short-term care and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Even though we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B for short-term care. With our short-term care category, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 45.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a favorable grade of B for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
Unfortunately, this place received a lowly F for its inspection score. This is a very important category. Scores in this range generally point to some red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This usually indicates that CMS inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored was long-term care. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 69.73684 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Franklin Hills Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term care residents who are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better