Columbia Basin Care

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned an excellent inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.492386 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing rating is based on a variety of factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

In the last category, this nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of A-. This finished off a rare straight A report card. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.