Avamere Crestview of Portland

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. We gave it an A in that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents at least once a day.

Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a grade of A for that category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in that category, with a grade of C. While this was not on par with a few of this facility's other scores, it is still not a major area of concern. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 91.52543 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.