Park Shore is a small non-profit nursing home located in Seattle, Washington. This proved to be an A rated facility, which is one of the best ratings that we offer. Even in a city of 14 nursing homes, this nursing home stood out. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong.
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Park Shore
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A+. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is often a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we scored was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when it's worst score still is superior to most other facilities. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.8254 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Park Shore Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Park Shore, 7.46% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who have pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Park Shore, 2.9% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who had a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Park Shore, 2.29% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Additional nurse staffing reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Park Shore, 13.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Park Shore, 12.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Park Shore, 13.28% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Park Shore, 92.89% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Park Shore, 14.67% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Park Shore, 18.81% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Park Shore, 18.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Park Shore, 75.22% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term stay residents who saw 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
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Nearby Dialysis
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