Marquis Piedmont Post Acute Rehab

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next category we scored is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B-. While this ended up being its least impressive category rating, this is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.2381 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.