Transitional Care Center of Seattle

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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2611 S Dearborn Street,
Seattle WA 98144

(360) 892-6628

40.12% estimated occupancy ¹

Transitional Care Center of Seattle is in Seattle, Washington, which appears to have an abundance of nursing homes. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. This place seems to have a few things going for it. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

Facility Inspections

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this area with an A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without complete deficiency related data, it ended up being difficult to fully assess it in the inspections category.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also was given a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

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Nurse Quality

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Long-term Care Quality

The next area we looked at is long-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is certainly a major concern. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to just 64.596275 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Transitional Care Center of Seattle Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 7.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 2.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 2.28% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic could also be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 13.8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 12.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 13.74% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 93.71% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 13.94% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 21.78% Percentage of Residents

This is the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Transitional Care Center of Seattle, 1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of residents.