Universal Health Care/King

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. To our surprise, this place was hit with a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. This typically indicates the government inspectors found a deficiency which placed patient health or safety in immediate danger. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility's next highest category was long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 90.09585 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

This facility wound up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Considering its grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we assessed was nursing. It received an F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.