Aidan Senior Living at Reedsport

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.875 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of A-. This finished off a straight A profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.