Washington Veteran Home-Retsil

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility performed well in short-term care. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was given an acceptable long-term care score of C. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.89474 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.