Forest Grove Rehabilitation and Care Center

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another of this facility's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be one of its best grades. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong long-term care rating. Even though this wasn't as impressive as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive grades a facility can receive. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.346405 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.