Salem Transitional Care

Salem Transitional Care is an average-sized nursing home located in Salem, Oregon. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a solid grade. In a city without an elite selection of nursing homes, this facility was better than most of the alternatives in Salem. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. If it wasn't for this area, this nursing home's overall score would have been much worse. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a substantially greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the nation in this area with 65.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place provided 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Lastly, our nursing rating also includes a few relevant quality measures. Although this facility excelled in terms of quantity of nursing care, it lagged behind in certain metrics that focused on quality. This facility's nursing rating was hurt by its weak performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. We found that 20 percent of this facility's patients suffered from pressure ulcers.

Our final area is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a C in this category. In calculating our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by a facility's residents. In addition to providing very respectable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.