Vancouver Specialty and Rehab Care

Vancouver Specialty and Rehab Care is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Vancouver, Washington with a population of 299,480 people. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this facility, as it received an overall rating of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's mediocre overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are five other nursing homes in Vancouver. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

We were not high on this nursing home's overall score or its category ratings. We gave it a D for our inspections rating and that turned out to be its best grade. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had a category L deficiency, which is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This category means inspectors identified a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Even a single deficiency of this severity really pulls a facility's inspection rating down. On top of having severe deficiencies, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing ratings, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place had poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 27.8 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we graded was long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a poor grade. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 97.916664 percent of its patients, which is a very solid percentage. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home fared much worse with 3.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is more than twice the national average.