Signature Health of Portland Rehab & Wellness Cent

Signature Health of Portland Rehab & Wellness Cent is the sole option we found in Portland, Tennessee. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. The only positive thing we can say about this facility is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's short-term care grade appears to be one of its respectable features. The nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is more often than not a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 39.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we gave it a grade of D for that category, which is one of our best scores. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these datapoints. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

The next category we scored was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. We were far less impressed with its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly twice the national average.