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North Valley Extended Care

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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22 W 1st Street,
Tonasket WA 98855

(509) 486-3110

85.71% estimated occupancy ¹

North Valley Extended Care is a senior living facility located in Tonasket, Washington, a city with a total of 5,863 people. This turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a phenomenal rating. In our view, this place is a great choice for most people. Finally, this wound up being a very consistent facility with consistently strong scores in each of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy

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Nurse Quality

We also would like to point out that this nursing home earned an A for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning the page to our next category, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was awarded a very strong long-term care rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category, giving this facility straight A's. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.3007 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 nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

North Valley Extended Care Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In North Valley Extended Care, 8.4% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In North Valley Extended Care, 2.1% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents that experienced falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In North Valley Extended Care, 5.59% of Patients had UTIs

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who have had UTI's. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In North Valley Extended Care, 35.66% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In North Valley Extended Care, 13.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In North Valley Extended Care, 9.35% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In North Valley Extended Care, 98.97% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In North Valley Extended Care, 21.01% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the erosion of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In North Valley Extended Care, 12.43% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In North Valley Extended Care, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In North Valley Extended Care, 12.43% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.