Advanced Health Care of Albuquerque

In addition to faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of short-term care. In fact, it received one of our highest scores in that category with A. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home's third most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care grade is often used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we looked at was nursing. In this category, we gave this facility a C. Our nursing rating is based on many factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.