Park Ridge Care Center looks like it is just one of 26 facilities in Seattle, Washington. This city has far more choices compared to most other areas in Washington. This turns out to be a decent facility, with an overall grade of C. Seattle received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Park Ridge Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in nursing. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.11894 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this nursing home's overall score quite a bit. When a place has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned multiple years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Park Ridge Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Park Ridge Care Center, 7.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Park Ridge Care Center, 2.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents which suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Park Ridge Care Center, 2.28% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Park Ridge Care Center, 13.8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Park Ridge Care Center, 12.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Park Ridge Care Center, 13.74% of Patients
This is the percent of patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Park Ridge Care Center, 93.71% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Park Ridge Care Center, 13.94% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Park Ridge Care Center, 21.78% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Park Ridge Care Center, 1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Park Ridge Care Center, 21.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Park Ridge Care Center, 10.98 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of 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 assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Park Ridge Care Center, 74.42% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Seattle, WA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Seattle, Washington has 25 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Uw Medicine/Northwest HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.81 miles away1550 North 115th Street Seattle Washington 98133Voluntary non-profit - Other(206) 368-1700
- Swedish Edmonds HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.9 miles away21601 76th Avenue West Edmonds Washington 98026Voluntary non-profit - Private(425) 640-4000
- Seattle Children's HospitalChildrens 5.05 miles away4800 Sand Point Way Ne, PO Box C-5371 Seattle Washington 98105Voluntary non-profit - Private(206) 987-2000
- University of Washington Medical CtrAcute Care Hospitals 5.83 miles away1959 Ne Pacific St Box 356151 Seattle Washington 98195Government - State(206) 598-3300
- Evergreenhealth Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.39 miles away12040 Ne 128th Street Kirkland Washington 98034Government - Hospital District or Authority(425) 899-1000
- Kaiser Permanente Central HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.97 miles away201 - 16th Avenue East Seattle Washington 98112Voluntary non-profit - Other(206) 326-3000
- Virginia Mason Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.66 miles away925 Seneca St Seattle Washington 98101Voluntary non-profit - Private(206) 223-6600
- Swedish Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.7 miles away747 Broadway Seattle Washington 98122Voluntary non-profit - Private(206) 386-6000
Nearby Dialysis
- Nkc Scribner Kidney Center2.02 miles away2150 N 107th, Suite 160 Seattle Washington 98133CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (206) 363-5090
- Nkc Lake City Kidney Center2.72 miles away14524 Bothell Way Ne Seattle Washington 98155CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (206) 365-0775
- Puget Sound Kc South4.7 miles away21309 44th Ave W Mountlake Terrace Washington 98043CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (425) 744-1095
- Seattle Childrens Hospital Dialysis5.48 miles away4800 Sand Point Way Ne Oc.9.820 Seattle Washington 98105Dialysis Stations: 7 (206) 987-3985
- Nkc Kirkland Kidney Center6.02 miles away11327 Ne 120th St Kirkland Washington 98034CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (425) 821-8785
- Mill Creek Dialysis Center6.25 miles away18001 Bothell Everett Hwy Ste 112 Bothell Washington 98012Dialysis Stations: 9 (425) 481-5258
- Olympic View Dialysis Center7.14 miles away125 16th Ave E, Csb-5 Seattle Washington 98112CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (206) 323-8900
- Nkc Elliott Bay Kidney Center8.35 miles away600 Broadway, Suite 240 Seattle Washington 98122CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (206) 292-2515