Avamere Rehabilitation of Beaverton

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very strong nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning residents more frequently.

To complement its first-rate achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home received a favorable nursing grade in our assessment, with a B. While this is not quite as good as many of its other category grades, this is still one of the more impressive grades for this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 97.89474 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.