Mission Healthcare at Renton

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing score consists of many factors, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we graded is short-term care. This incredible nursing home also excelled in this area, where it received an A+. This rounded out a perfect profile of A+'s. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.