Marquis Autumn Hills

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on its recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for this category. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a fine long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.129036 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a very impressive report card. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. 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 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.