Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas is a nursing home located in Gladstone, Oregon, which has a population of 12,131 people. We gave this facility an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. Based on the data we reviewed, you can't go wrong here. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section
Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an A for that area. The nursing rating weighs a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our third category, this nursing home was given an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong long-term care score. Even though this is not quite as strong as many of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the stronger scores we offer. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.33775 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 8.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 2.43% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 2.24% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 15.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 12.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 5.65% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 92.57% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 13.82% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 22.07% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 22.07 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 13.94 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas, 75.47% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Providence Willamette Falls Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.9 miles away1500 Division Street Oregon City Oregon 97045Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 657-6915
- Kaiser Sunnyside Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.87 miles away10180 Se Sunnyside Road Clackamas Oregon 97015Voluntary non-profit - Other(503) 652-2880
- Legacy Meridian Park Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.21 miles away19300 Sw 65th Avenue Tualatin Oregon 97062Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 692-2182
- Adventist Health PortlandAcute Care Hospitals 9.07 miles away10123 Se Market Street Portland Oregon 97216Voluntary non-profit - Church(503) 257-2500
- Ohsu Hospital and ClinicsAcute Care Hospitals 9.26 miles away3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Road Portland Oregon 97239Voluntary non-profit - Other(503) 494-6245
- Providence Portland Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.02 miles away4805 Ne Glisan Street Portland Oregon 97213Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 215-1111
- Legacy Good Samaritan Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.39 miles away1015 Nw 22nd Avenue, w121 Portland Oregon 97210Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 413-7711
- Legacy Emanuel Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.78 miles away2801 N Gantenbein Avenue Portland Oregon 97227Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 413-2200
Nearby Dialysis
- Willamette Valley Renal Center1.86 miles away1510 Division St Ste 90 Oregon City Oregon 97045Dialysis Stations: 13 (503) 557-1373
- Lake Road Dialysis2.75 miles away6902 Se Lake Rd, Suite 100 Portland Oregon 97267CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (503) 794-1288
- Fmc Clackamas Kidney Center3.15 miles away13560 Se 97th Ave Clackamas Oregon 97015CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (503) 659-8200
- Fmc Hilltop Dialysis3.28 miles away328 Warner Milne Rd Oregon City Oregon 97045Dialysis Stations: 13 (503) 650-2357
- Meridian Park Dialysis Center7.23 miles away19255 Sw 65th Ave Suite 100 Tualatin Oregon 97062Dialysis Stations: 14 (503) 692-8159
- Foster Powell Dialysis7.28 miles away6828 Se Foster Rd Portland Oregon 97206Dialysis Stations: 17 (503) 777-5780
- Pnrs Tualatin7.89 miles away7780 Sw Mohawk St Tualatin Oregon 97062CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (971) 224-4000
- Portland Dialysis Center9.65 miles away10595 Se Stark St Portland Oregon 97216Dialysis Stations: 15 (503) 252-0019