Fernhill Estates

Fernhill Estates is in Portland, Oregon, which has an abundance of nursing homes. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this is undoubtedly an impressive nursing home. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this facility. Its scores are as good as they get. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing grade consists of quite a few factors, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

To complement its elite accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this place's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility provides more care from registered nurses than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that category with a grade of B+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Sadly, this nursing home was hit with a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected given its inspection grade. This category means CMS discovered a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in immediate jeopardy. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

The last category we rated is this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would be a strength for many facilities. We gave it an above average grade of B in long-term care. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.33962 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.