Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Aurora Park
292 Main Street, East Aurora NY 14052 · (716) 652-1560 · 96.93% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Aurora Park is a nursing home located in East Aurora, New York, which has 17,329 people. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is a solid facility. This facility seems to have some things going for it. The best part of this place's profile was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 320 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This is far better than the facility's overall rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second best area is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care rather than the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 73.673256 percent of its patients. This is several points less than the national average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this category. Our short-term care grades are arguably more meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 43.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing, which is this facility's weakest area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is clearly a major concern. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing score significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Aurora Park Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better