Alpha Home - A Waters Community is a facility located in Indianapolis, Indiana which has a total of 910,148 people. With a bottom of the barrel overall grade of F, this nursing home didn't fare well in our assessment. Indianapolis received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next section.
Alpha Home - A Waters Community
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Note: Alpha Home - A Waters Community has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. This place's best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This particular place provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care grade and that actually wound up as its second most favorable score. Short-term care ratings are vital for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, 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 patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 82.73809 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Facility Inspections
In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an abysmal grade. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Alpha Home - A Waters Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 7.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients which suffered from urinary tract infections. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 21.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 12.89% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 91.48% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 15.74% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 15.7% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility. Some argue that mobility is important for patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 15.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 11.29 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Alpha Home - A Waters Community, 73.78% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Indianapolis, IN
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Indianapolis, Indiana has 45 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
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- Community Hospital EastAcute Care Hospitals 6.95 miles away1500 N Ritter Ave Indianapolis Indiana 46219Voluntary non-profit - Private(317) 355-5411
- St Vincent Hospital & Health ServicesAcute Care Hospitals 7.43 miles away2001 W 86th St Indianapolis Indiana 46260Voluntary non-profit - Church(317) 338-7000
- Iu Health West HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.62 miles away1111 N Ronald Reagan Pkwy Avon Indiana 46123Proprietary(317) 217-3000
- St Vincent Neighborhood HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.51 miles away9613 East Us Highway 36 Avon Indiana 46123Proprietary(317) 703-1999
- St Vincent Heart Center of Indiana LLCAcute Care Hospitals 9.55 miles away10580 N Meridian St Indianapolis Indiana 46290Proprietary(317) 583-5000
Nearby Dialysis
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