Life Care Center of Kennewick
1508 West Seventh Avenue, Kennewick WA 99336 · (509) 586-9185 · 46.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Life Care Center of Kennewick is a large facility in Kennewick, Washington. With an overall rating of B-, this is a solid nursing home. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its impressive short-term care score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 136 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled at short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This really boosted its overall profile. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home with 58.6 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these figures. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility offers.
Facility Inspections
This facility did not earn a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a D in this area. This grade was a bit off the pace of this facility's other grades. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's government inspections. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, we need to point out that this place received large government fines in recent years of over $50,000. This often indicates that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad government inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this area, we gave this nursing home a D. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. While we determined this nursing home has an impressive amount of nursing care provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat low. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.83051 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we'd love to see this nursing home improve on. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.75 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also a cause for concern.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Kennewick Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures 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 tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better