Willapa Harbor Health and Rehab

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third category we graded was short-term care. This nursing home received an above average short-term care score, with a B+ in the area. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility did not fare well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category, this is obviously this nursing home's weakest category grade. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.34513 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.