North Bend Post Acute

In addition to having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to note that this facility received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top score. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.039734 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's third best category is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Turning the final category of inspections, this nursing home did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This ended up really pulling this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This usually suggests that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.