Salem Transitional Care is an average-sized nursing home located in Salem, Oregon. This nursing home was given an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable score. In fact, we thought highly enough of this facility to rate it ahead of the majority of the facilities in Salem. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
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Salem Transitional Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we wanted to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an A in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. We gave it an A- for that area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
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Nurse Quality
The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our last area, this nursing home was awarded a C for long-term care, which is generally a decent score. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Salem Transitional Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Salem Transitional Care, 9.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Salem Transitional Care, 2.43% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Salem Transitional Care, 2.67% of Patients had UTIs
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who experienced a UTI. While more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Salem Transitional Care, 15.04% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Salem Transitional Care, 12.62% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Salem Transitional Care, 6.44% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Salem Transitional Care, 92.26% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Salem Transitional Care, 12.97% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Salem Transitional Care, 14.28 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Salem Transitional Care, 77% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Salem, OR
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
Looking for more options? Salem, Oregon has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Salem HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.07 miles away890 Oak Street, Se Salem Oregon 97301Voluntary non-profit - Other(503) 561-5200
- Santiam HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.41 miles away1401 N 10th Avenue Stayton Oregon 97383Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 769-2175
- Legacy Silverton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.84 miles away342 Fairview Street Silverton Oregon 97381Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 873-1500
- Salem Health West ValleyCritical Access Hospitals 15.73 miles away525 Se Washington Street Dallas Oregon 97338Voluntary non-profit - Private(503) 623-8301
- Samaritan Albany General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.5 miles away1046 6th Avenue Sw Albany Oregon 97321Voluntary non-profit - Church(541) 812-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Salem Dialysis3.23 miles away3550 Liberty Rd S Suite 100 Salem Oregon 97302CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (503) 371-8047
- Total Renal Care Inc3.58 miles away421 Lancaster Dr Ne Salem Oregon 97301Dialysis Stations: 25 (503) 581-6236
- Qualicenters - Salem Ltd3.65 miles away440 Lancaster Dr Ne Salem Oregon 97301CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 35 (503) 364-1130
- Ne Salem Dialysis5.26 miles away4792 Portland Rd Ne Salem Oregon 97305CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (503) 393-2142
- Salem North Dialysis5.26 miles away1220 Liberty St Ne Salem Oregon 97301CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (503) 315-2212
- Fmc West Salem5.26 miles away1060 2nd St Nw Salem Oregon 97304Dialysis Stations: 13 (503) 763-3257
- Qualicenters - Albany Ltd17.6 miles away605 Hickory St Nw Albany Oregon 97321Dialysis Stations: 14 (541) 928-1749
- Woodburn Dialysis19.46 miles away1840 Newberg Hwy Ste 140 Woodburn Oregon 97071CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (503) 982-2005