Afton Oaks Nursing Center

While we gave this facility a poor overall score, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This is the result of the facility receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next best score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade analyzes several datapoints, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. 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. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 75.06297 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.