Washington Soldiers Home

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing score features a number of subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next category, we awarded this facility a score of A- for our long-term care rating. This is a very impressive score. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.50173 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a straight A profile. Our short-term care ratings are important for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.