Advanced Health Care of Albuquerque

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent short-term care grade. We gave them an A in this area. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that area, which is one of our top scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we graded was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually proved to be this nursing home's worst category. In the area of long-term care, we assess the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were not able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.