Washington Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility received a strong long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing grade considers numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is not an impressive total. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

Moving on to our next category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category rating. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We found that this nursing home was below average in many staffing metrics we assessed. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.