Richmond Beach Rehab

Richmond Beach Rehab is located in Seattle, Washington, which offers quite a few nursing homes. This is a decent facility, with an overall grade of C. Seattle received a city grade of B, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the category of short-term care, with a strong grade of A- in this category. In our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational 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 metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 49.6 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We also gave this facility a middle of the road score in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 97.15099 percent of its patients, which is an above average datapoint. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

In our last category of inspections, this facility received a terrible grade. With an F in the inspection category, this facility's overall grade was pulled down significantly. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This usually suggests that a bad track record has been an issue for several years.