Secora Rehabilitation of Cascadia

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Our nursing grade analyzes several subcategories, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients even once per day.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this facility was given a dominant grade of A- in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. This turned out to be one of its best category grades. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher scores in this category, with a grade of B. Even though this isn't as high as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable score. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.