Shaw Mountain of Cascadia is a senior living facility located in Boise, Idaho, which has a population of 235,657 people. This nursing home proved to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. This nursing home truly has plenty working in its favor. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Shaw Mountain of Cascadia
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this facility was given a C. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. This is still not a major area of concern. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 97.87234 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Shaw Mountain of Cascadia Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 5.85% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 2.48% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients which suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 17.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 16.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 7.97% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 89.29% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 13.52% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 18.02% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 0.95 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 18.02 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 11.12 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, 75.93% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Boise, ID
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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