Prestige Post-Acute & Rehab Center - Milwaukie

While we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its much more favorable nursing rating this year. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall rating. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a resident more often.

This facility's second highest area is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In the category of long-term care, we focus on the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.765434 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility was awarded its third best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable score. Short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 3.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a score of just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's government inspections. We weight poor inspection scores heavily in our assessment. Since the inspection reports are compiled by independent inspectors, we consider this data to be very reliable. Our inspection ratings weigh many items found on the facility's inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this place received large government fines recently of more than $50,000. This usually means that inspectors became fed up after several years of bad health inspections.