Avamere Rehabilitation of Clackamas

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has earned excellent inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a strong long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this nursing home's second most impressive category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.23664 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- in that category. With our short-term care category, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Moving on to our final category, this facility also performed admirably in our nursing category. We gave it a B+ for that category. This rounded out a very strong profile. When determining our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.