Washington Healthcare Center
8201 W Washington St, Indianapolis IN 46231 · (317) 244-6848 · 72.87% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Indianapolis, Indiana, Washington Healthcare Center is on a list of 49 nursing homes in the city. This is a good nursing home with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Indianapolis. You could certainly do worse than this place. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 94 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given impressive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second best grade. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home's vaccination records were not as favorable as its nursing hours data. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 76.22378 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed most facilities in this area with 56 percent of its patients returning home. This really bolstered its score in this area.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the final area we looked at. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. In spite of a few respectable scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the source of this facility's poor nursing grade. This facility provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is better than we expected. In calculating our grades, we apply additional weight to hours performed by highly skilled nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home didn't fare as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was above the national average in both of these statistics. This is not a good sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These data points pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Washington Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better