Astoria Place of Silverton

We really were not high on this nursing home's overall scores or its category scores. We gave it just a just D in nursing and that proved to be its highest score. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provides 0.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For facilities with poor inspection ratings, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home'spoor performance spanned several years.

This facility ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our long-term care area. It was given an F in this category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.19679 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility really did not perform well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. In crafting our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. With its weak rating in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.