Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Oregon in this area with 70.8 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home the country. Avoiding major falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.

This nursing home has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The final category we scored was long-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D in our long-term care category, making this its worst category. We would still suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.10345 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.