The Pearl at Kruse Way

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care rating. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 7.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Oregon in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is among our best grades. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. This was this facility's worst category. Our long-term care scores are more critical for residents in need of more conventional services related to activities of daily living. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Finally, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.