Northpark Health and Rehabilitation of Cascadia

To go along with its favorable overall score, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without all of the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was difficult to fully assess it in the area of inspections.

This facility received impressive grades in the category of short-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our most favorable scores in that area with a area of A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The third area we assessed was long-term care. This facility was given an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we assessed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable score in that area, with a grade of C. Although this isn't as strong as a few of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.