Puyallup Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Part of the reason this nursing home performed so well overall is that it excelled in the area of short-term care, with a B+ in that area. Our short-term care scores are presumably most meaningful for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on its recent government inspections. We awarded it an B+ for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.546585 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we expected. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we looked at was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of C in that area. The nursing grade analyzes several components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based metrics in this category. Although this place didn't rank highly in terms of its nursing hours, it fared much better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care.