Washington Soldiers Home
1301 Orting-Kapowsin Hwy E, Orting WA 98360 · (360) 893-4515 · 89.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Washington Soldiers Home is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Orting, Washington. This nursing home is a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. This nursing home seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 97 Beds
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Government - State
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. There are numerous datapoints included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this facility performed as well as just about any nursing home we assessed.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.41691 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. This place was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third best area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 29.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Facility Inspections
In our last category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. This grade was very detrimental to this facility's overall score. With places that received this bad of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by CMS had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received a substantiated complaint in the last few years. There seem to be no shortage of reasons to pass on this facility.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Washington Soldiers Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better