Porthaven Healthcare Center

We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We gave them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Oregon with 65.2 percent of its patients returning home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home Oregon.

In addition, this facility also received first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Turning to our last area, we awarded this facility a grade of D for long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category rating. Nevertheless, you shouldn't over-emphasize one weak score. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.44444 percent of its residents. These scores are obviously more impressive than some of its other data points in the category. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.