Willamette View Health Center

On top of being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong profile, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a grade of A for the category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing rating analyzes many factors, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients more often.

In our last area, this nursing home also was given a first-rate long-term care rating, with a B+. This completed a very favorable report card. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also 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 an impressively low figure.