Idaho State Veterans Home - Lewiston
821 21st Avenue, Lewiston ID 83501 · (208) 750-3600 · 78.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Lewiston, Idaho, Idaho State Veterans Home - Lewiston is one of six available nursing homes in this area. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. Lewiston received a city grade of A-, so there are other options in the city worth considering. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its stellar nursing score, which is addressed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in nursing, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Approximately one quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures easily exceed the national average. Lastly, this nursing home also fared very well in most of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it had a low number of patients sustaining both major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. In calculating these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 36.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. In forming our long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
Moving on the final category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This pulled this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. Tragically, this place was assessed a category L deficiency. This type of deficiency indicates widespread threats to patient health or safety. This type of deficiency is toxic to a facility's inspection grade. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This generally means that inspectors became fed up after several years of failed government inspections.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Idaho State Veterans Home - Lewiston Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better