Creekside Rehabilitation and Nursing

Creekside Rehabilitation and Nursing is a small nursing home located in Portland, Oregon. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. In our grading scheme, this is ranked as one of the five worst rated nursing homes in Portland. In a city with countless other facilities, you will probably be able to find a better option. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. Based on the data, it looks like this facility provides an impressive 4.3 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than most facilities provide. In determining our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing rating also includes relevant quality-based measures. While this nursing home excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it lagged a bit in some of the metrics that related to quality. This nursing home's nursing score was pulled down by poor performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 13 percent of this nursing home's patients sustained pressure ulcers. Since many pressure ulcers can be avoided with good nursing protocols, we reduce a facility's nursing grade when we find this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.

Incredibly, we gave this nursing home a grade of B- for our short-term care grade, which isn't too bad of a score. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This facility wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. This nursing home's vaccination records were a bit weaker than a few of the other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours data. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.15942 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to patients. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.