Regency Olympia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for short-term care. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

The next area we scored was this nursing home's worst area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for long-term care. With our long-term care score, we weigh the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a handful of quality statistics. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 98.039215 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.