Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center is an average-sized facility in Saint Helens, Oregon. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor facility. A grade of this caliber indicates we found a few red flags. This nursing home seems to have very little working in its favor. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next section.
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Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Even though we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing rating of B-. The nursing rating includes a handful of components, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third best category was long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.333336 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
Moving on our last area of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. Since this information is compiled by government inspectors, we heavily weight poor results in this category. For facilities with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. This generally means that inspectors uncovered a deficiency which places patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 1.47% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents which have sustained UTI's. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 14.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 8.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 0.93% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 92.39% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 9.91% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 7.73% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 7.73% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 23.76% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Meadow Park Health & Specialty Care Center, 84.17% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Legacy Salmon Creek Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.75 miles away2211 Ne 139th Street Vancouver Washington 98686Voluntary non-profit - Private(360) 487-1000
- Peacehealth St John Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.67 miles away1615 Delaware Street Longview Washington 98632Voluntary non-profit - Church(360) 414-2000
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- Total Renal Care, Inc.15.05 miles away720 W Main St Ste 112 Battle Ground Washington 98604Dialysis Stations: 10 (360) 687-4677
- Vancouver Dialysis Center18.36 miles away9120 Ne Vancouver Mall Dr Suite 160 Vancouver Washington 98682CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (360) 891-5777
- Peacehealth Dialysis Center19.86 miles away600 N Broadway Longview Washington 98632Dialysis Stations: 22 (360) 414-2200