Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
805 Front Street, Issaquah WA 98027 · (425) 392-1271 · 70.07% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is in Issaquah, Washington. This city has a population of 50,489 people. This nursing home is a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. Remarkably, the nursing homes in Issaquah received high scores across the board, making this one of the better places in Washington to find a nursing home. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 140 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This was more of a strength for this facility. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Washington in this area with 62.8 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records was superb also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.9 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the medical complexity of residents.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the next category, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing score. Although this wasn't quite as strong as some of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Finally, we factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we considered, with below average marks for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better