Avamere Rehabilitation of Hillsboro

Avamere Rehabilitation of Hillsboro is an average-sized nursing home located in Hillsboro, Oregon. This nursing home received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average grade. This facility definitely has plenty of good features. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for this area, which is one of our best grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to this nursing home's list of achievements, it also received a top-shelf short-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A in this area. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Oregon in this area with 58.2 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered on top of this facility's impressive nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.31035 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was middle of the road since it had more complex patients.

The final area we rated was nursing. In this area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This was this facility's least impressive area. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.5 hours per resident daily. This is well above average. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.