Renton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually received an impressive grade of A- in the area of nursing. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a C. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score is long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.805756 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This nursing home didn't receive glowing government inspections in recent years. Consequently, we had to give it an F in this category. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had 10 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we also would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines of more than $100,000. This typically indicates that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.