Cascade Terrace

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Adding to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home 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 item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another quality feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B+. This rounded out a very strong report card. Very few facilities received a B+ or better in every single category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.4382 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.