Park Ridge Care Center is just one of 14 nursing homes in Seattle, Washington. This nursing home was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. Seattle received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss nursing in the next section.
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Park Ridge Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Park Ridge Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- 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
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Even though we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall score, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of B-. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
One of this facility's more respectable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility received its next best category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a decent score. Long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's amount of nursing services. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 99.54751 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was assessed 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.
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, 5.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percent of long-term patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Park Ridge Care Center, 2.26% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care patients who have sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Park Ridge Care Center, 0.5% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic can be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Park Ridge Care Center, 13.68% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Park Ridge Care Center, 2.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Park Ridge Care Center, 16.35% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Park Ridge Care Center, 98.35% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Park Ridge Care Center, 9.41% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Park Ridge Care Center, 14.15% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Park Ridge Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Park Ridge Care Center, 14.15% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Park Ridge Care Center, 12.01% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Park Ridge Care Center, 74.43% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
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 13 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