Renton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

We gave this nursing home an A- for our short-term care grade. This is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received a great nursing grade. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. When determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its long-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 93.884895 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received a terrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 10 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.