Prestige Care & Rehab Center of Anchorage
9100 Centennial Drive, Anchorage AK 99504 · (907) 333-8100 · 91.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Anchorage, Alaska, Prestige Care & Rehab Center of Anchorage is one of a mere three available nursing homes in the city. With an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is among the better nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 102 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in Alaska in this area with 58 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility boasts a really impressive 5.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we assessed was long-term care. This facility received an impressive long-term care rating this year, with a B-. While this isn't nearly as elite as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless a decent grade in this area. In our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a nursing home, as well as a series of qualitative data points. This facility's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than some of its other statistics in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 70.22654 percent of its residents. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Nevertheless, this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.39 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Prestige Care & Rehab Center of Anchorage Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better