Auburn Manor

To pair with a strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.64706 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on our third category, this facility was given first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that area. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category. This topped off a first-rate report card. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.