Franklin Hills Health & Rehab Center

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

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.

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.

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.

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.