Avamere Rehabilitation of Beaverton

With an address in Beaverton, Oregon, Avamere Rehabilitation of Beaverton is one of just a few facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this facility is among the higher-rated facilities we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the United States. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Oregon in this area with 75.6 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the country.

The next area we scored turned out to be this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of C in our long-term care category. Our long-term care ratings are pivotal for individuals seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of providing favorable levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 95.20958 percent of its patients. This figure is better than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.