Manorcare Health Services - Salmon Creek

Manorcare Health Services - Salmon Creek is in Vancouver, Washington. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 299,480 people. With an overall grade of A-, this facility is one of the better facilities in Vancouver, which features plenty of very good nursing homes. This is just about as good of a place as you'll find. This facility was also given phenomenal scores in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in this area with 55.2 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Of this total, nearly one fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly trained levels of nurses. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Washington in this category. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and a system of turning patients more often.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was given an extremely favorable long-term care grade. Even though this isn't quite as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this remains one of our stronger grades a facility can receive. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.515526 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Although it had 3.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the national average due to it having some more complex patients.