Prestige Care & Rehabilitation - Camas

Prestige Care & Rehabilitation - Camas is an average-sized facility in Camas, Washington. After receiving an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 25 best facilities in Washington. As you can find below, this place also performed well in our category grades. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 66.7 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

This facility also was elite in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to really impressive nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records is first-rate as well. Indeed, it vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Finishing off its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. We gave it a score of B+ for that category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.