Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab

Marquis Tualatin Post Acute Rehab is a small nursing home in Tualatin, Oregon. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our better ratings. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes in the nation. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We gave them an A+ in this area. With our short-term care category, we strive to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Remarkably, this place provides roughly 50% more hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we assessed. This is usually an encouraging sign. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Oregon in this area with 68.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's government inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was one of the better totals we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a C. While this turned out to be its poorest category score, this is still a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. On top of providing favorable levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 96.296295 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.