East Portland Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. We awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our higher grades. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's next best area is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.7013 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this facility's overall grade significantly. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.