Roo-Lan Healthcare Center

Roo-Lan Healthcare Center is located in Lacey, Washington. This city has a total of 36,611 people. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it maintains respectable levels of care.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility was given its third most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed more favorably in this area. In fact, we found it was above average in this area with 49.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Switching gears to our final area, we awarded this nursing home a D in long-term care. This was the nursing home's weakest category score. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 90.344826 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.