Wellspring Health & Rehabilitation of Cascadia

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this area with an A. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 11 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.

This facility was awarded its second best category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent score. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.331985 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third category we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Our final category is nursing, where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Although this place ranked poorly in terms of the quantity of nursing care available, it surprisingly performed admirably in a few of our quality-based metrics. In fact, it was above average in two of the areas we assess, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.