Mt Baker Care Center

Services and Housing Options

Assisted Living, Nursing Home, Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation

Estimated Pricing

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Mt Baker Care Center Description

Mt. Baker Care Center is the perfect place for you and your loved ones to feel comfortable and at ease. Since we opened our doors in 1991, we have consistently delivered a lifestyle of compassionate care, well-being, and value amidst a beautiful setting. Nestled in the beautiful city of Bellingham, Washington, Mt. Baker Care Center is a top provider of skilled nursing and assisted living services. Here, you will find a community of residents who are thriving and enjoying life to the fullest.

Assisted Living

When you choose to make Summit Place your home, do so with the knowledge that you’ve just gained a loving and supportive family in all of us! At Summit Place, we don't just provide the same old amenities that our residents would expect. We go above and beyond to make each resident feel unique, understood, and loved during the process. Whether it's meal service, laundry assistance, housekeeping, nursing oversight, medication assistance or help with personal service needs and leisure activities – we do it all with a smile and genuine care for each individual.

Rehabilitation

Mt. Baker Care Center is dedicated to providing its residents with top-notch in-patient and out-patient rehabilitation services that cover the gamut from physical, occupational, and speech therapies to restorative nursing. We can provide residents with professional, reliable, and effective therapy sessions by contracting with Infinity Rehab. Incorporating unique measures into every care plan helps residents meet their physical goals more quickly and transition back home in a timely manner.

Skilled Nursing

Mt. Baker Care Center's skilled nursing services are five-star rated and provide a healing environment with a patient-centered approach for both short and long term care. We have highly trained registered and licensed practical nurses on staff 24 hours a day, and our patient-to-staff ratios are higher than state and national averages. This means that each resident receives the individualized care they need to recover.

Ranking

Ranking in City: 3 out of 18 communities in Bellingham

Ranking in State: 21 out of 559 communities in WA

Services

Mt Baker Care Center and Summit Place Assisted Living provide a wide range of services to their residents, including Rehabilitation Therapy, Skilled Nursing Care, Palliative Care, Generations Enrichment Activities, Specialized Services (speech, occupational and physical therapy), and Dietary Services tailored to individual needs.

Rehabilitation Services and Amenities

Mt Baker Care Center offers a full range of professional rehabilitation services, including physical, occupational, and speech therapies, as well as restorative nursing. The Center takes an integrated approach to ensure clients reach their goals more quickly. Home evaluations and a team approach are also available to ensure a smooth transition back home. With these comprehensive services and amenities, Mt Baker Care Center is an excellent choice for those in need of rehabilitation.

Skilled Nursing Services and Amenities

Mt Baker Care Center provides long-term convalescent care, subacute medical care, transitional nursing care, short-term respite care, behavior management and restorative therapy. 24-hour RN LPN and NAC care is also provided for the utmost in patient care. Furthermore, individualized rehabilitation programs are provided by licensed professionals and discharge planning including home assessment and evaluation of therapeutic services and equipment needs is available. All these amenities ensure that the residents receive comprehensive and quality skilled nursing services at Mt Baker Care Center.

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Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This nursing community has been given an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid receiving 4 stars on its health inspection, 5 stars on its quality measures rating, and 5 stars on its staffing rating. Within the quality measure rating, each facility is given a short-stay rating and a long-stay rating. This facility received a 5-star short-stay rating and a 5-star long-stay rating. This nursing home is certified by Medicare and Medicaid and was first approved to provide Medicare and Medicaid services on 04/01/91 and is run by a for profit organization. It is a large-sized nursing community with 70 nursing beds. Currently, there are 55 residents within the nursing community. Be advised these resident occupancy numbers are not always up to date and are collected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website periodically. The community is a continuing care retirement community which is a community where there are multiple levels of care at a single location. Typically these communities have 3-4 levels of care including independent living, assisted living, memory care, and nursing care.

Overall Ratings

Mt Baker Care Center is a highly esteemed nursing home that boasts a 5-star overall rating, making it one of the nation's top-tier facilities. Its sterling reputation extends beyond its exceptional overall rating, as this mark actually places it in the uppermost 10% of all nursing home facilities nationwide - a testament to its prowess - and denotes that it is significantly surpassing the state average rating. Moreover, Mt Baker Care Center maintains a 4-star health inspection rating, a feat that solidly places it within the top 30% of all facilities in this category, once again outperforming the state average. The facility also prides itself in having a 5-star quality rating, an honor only granted to the best. This stands as another proof of high-level care, positioning it in the distinguished top 20% of all facilities in terms of this rating, and significantly exceeding the state average.

Staff Ratings

Mt Baker Care Center is a top-tier nursing home known for its distinguished and dedicated staff, boasting a 5-star staff rating - the highest achievable. The level of nursing aid provided by the facility is impressive, standing in the top 20% with a daily provision of 2.82 nursing aid staffing hours per resident, exceeding the state's average of 2.53 hours. However, the institution falls in the bottom 30% category when it comes to LPN staffing hours per resident per day, offering just 0.62 hours, lower than the state's 0.82. In terms of Registered Nurse (RN) staffing hours, the facility shines brightly in the top 10%, giving 1.32 hours per resident each day, surpassing the state's average of 0.89. Mt Baker Care Center maintains the same excellence in the provision of licensed staffing hours, occupying top 20% of facilities with a daily allocation of 1.94 hours per resident, outdoing the state's 1.71 hours. However, concerning physical therapist staffing hours, the center has room for improvement with the current statistics putting them in the bottom 10% of facilities due to a provision of 0.0 hours, far below the state's 0.09 hours per resident per day.

Covid Data

The Mt Baker Care Center excels in vaccination administration, outperforming most nursing homes in the state. In terms of resident vaccination rates, this nursing home is in the top 20% of facilities, boasting an impressive rate of 89.7%. This figure significantly surpasses the state average of 61.0%, demonstrating the Center's commitment to resident health and safety. In addition, the Center also ranks in the top 40% of facilities regarding the staff vaccination rate, which stands at 28.6%, on par with the state average. Therefore, it is evident that the Mt Baker Care Center not only prioritizes the well-being of its residents but also that of its staff.

Quality Measures

The Mt Baker Care Center, a premier nursing home, boasts a 5-star quality measure rating, placing it at the pinnacle of its sector. Notably, it ranks in the top 10% of care homes with 4.7% of residents exhibiting an increased dependency on help for daily activities, a significant reduction when compared to the state average of 14.91%. Furthermore, it maintains a superior care record with only 1.32% of its residents having ulcers; compared to the State's 6.89%, this is considerably better. Despite the exceptional management, the use of antipsychotic medication is an area of improvement with a relatively high 13.73% usage, albeit slightly lower than the state average of 13.94%. Additionally, the center falls within the bottom 30% in managing depressive symptoms among residents, with an incidence of 7.84%, below the state's 12.88%. Striving for continuous improvement, Mt Baker Care Center falls within the top 20% in terms of residents experiencing worsened movement independence, with a rate of 7.88%, significantly lower than the state average of 19.38%. This reaffirms the facility's commitment to providing superior care to its residents and their holistic wellbeing.

Emergency and Hospitalization Quality Measures

The Mt Baker Care Center performs impressively in various areas according to nursing home metrics. It ranks in the top 10% of facilities for both hospitalizations and outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 days. Its hospitalization rate is 0.8 per 1000 days, remarkably below the state average of 1.1. Similarly, the center boasts 0.09 outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 days, a fraction of the state's rate of 0.9. Furthermore, it also places highly in the top 10% of facilities for its percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after admission, with a rate of 10.4, significantly lower than the state average of 16.8. However, it falls in the bottom 40% when it comes to the percentage of short-stay residents who had outpatient emergency department visits, with a rate of 13.37, which is marginally higher than the state's percentage of 12.09. Despite this, the Mt Baker Care Center overall exhibits superior performance compared to many other facilities.

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