Regency Care of Central Oregon

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. The nursing rating weighs several datapoints. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home performed well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most elite scores. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility's worst category is long-term care, which is the last category we scored. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an D. We wanted to draw your attention to this potential weak spot, but you should not over-emphasize a single area either. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated just 86.46616 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.