Oregon Veterans' Home - Lebanon

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a B- for our inspections rating. This score is better than this facility's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors 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 can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility averages just 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area.

The third category we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The last area we graded is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.8764 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.