Kin on Health Care Center
4416 South Brandon Street, Seattle WA 98118 · (206) 721-3630 · 94.9% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Kin on Health Care Center is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Seattle, Washington. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Seattle. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its nursing score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this facility an A+. The nursing grade considers several subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This place boasts an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which more than an hour of these were provided by registered nurses. This is among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the state in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive grades, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are generally used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. One of this place's strengths is it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each patient. This is really the gold standard in this metric, as it's approximately 1.5 times higher than the average nursing home's level of registered nurse staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 39.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next area, we awarded this facility a D in the area of long-term care. This is the facility's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After considering nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. With a long-term care grade in this range, it is surprising to learn that this nursing home fared reasonably well in both statistics. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 95.945946 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kin on Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better