Mirabella Portland

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Oregon in this area with 67.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of datapoints, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 6.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is often an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can generallY be avoided with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The next area we rated is long-term care. This nursing home received an impressive nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. While this wasn't as strong as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our better scores for this category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Although we determined this facility had an above average volume of nursing care provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit below average. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.47619 percent of its patients. This is a figure we'd like to see this nursing home improve. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.