Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas

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.

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.

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.

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.