Park Ridge Care Center

Park Ridge Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Seattle, Washington. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. In fact, we found this nursing home to be better than most of the nursing homes in Seattle, which has a city grade of B. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was top notch as well. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating assesses several factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. With 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility was given a strong short-term care grade this year, with a grade of B-. Although this was not nearly as strong as several of its other scores, this is still a respectable score for that category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a substantially greater volume of physical therapist hours to its patients than a typical facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 40 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.