Avamere Transitional Care at Sunnyside
4515 Sunnyside Road Se, Salem OR 97302 · (503) 370-8284 · 82.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Avamere Transitional Care at Sunnyside is one of six nursing homes in Salem, Oregon. This isn't a bad nursing home with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Salem. Based on our assessment, this place is a solid choice for most people. The best part of this place's report card was is its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 88 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home an A- for our short-term care rating. This is much more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. It fared as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 64.1 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Nursing scores are largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.5 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as just about any nursing home we looked at.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a respectable score in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. While we determined this facility had a favorable amount of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit low. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.679245 percent of its patients. This is one figure we'd like to see this facility improve. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had a relatively high 3.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this facility in this area.
Facility Inspections
The last category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. This really dragged down this nursing home's overall score. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had multiple category G through L deficiencies, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Lastly, we would like to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Avamere Transitional Care at Sunnyside Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents that had a fall which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. High rates of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better