Shaw Mountain of Cascadia

Shaw Mountain of Cascadia is an average-sized nursing home located in Boise, Idaho. This is a strong nursing home with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to find out that many of the other nursing homes in Boise received similar grades. In spite of Boise offering 12 nursing homes available, this one stands out as a superb option. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this place surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This place outperformed most facilities in the nation with 53.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

This nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is among our best grades. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as 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 safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care score this year, with a C. Even though this wasn't nearly as dominant as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless a decent rating for that area. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. In addition to above average nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination statistics are fairly strong as well. In fact, it vaccinated 99.632355 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.