Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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700 East Alice Street,
Blackfoot ID 83221

(208) 785-1200

124.13% estimated occupancy ¹

Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility is located in Blackfoot, Idaho, a city with 27,021 people. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this is undoubtedly an impressive facility. In addition, this is a hospital-based nursing home, which is a positive for prospective patients with significant health conditions. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its nursing score, which you can find in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Government - State

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Nurse Quality

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Facility Inspections

This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an A- in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

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Short-term Care Quality

This facility received a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B+. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

The final category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong nursing score in our assessment, with a grade of B. Although this was not quite as good as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our stronger grades in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.29578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 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.

Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 5.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients which suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 3.08% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that experienced a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 2.27% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 18.17% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used for treating a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 16.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 7.56% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 89.26% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 13.51% Percentage of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 19.45% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 0.89 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility, 19.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.