Auburn Oaks Care Center
3400 Bell Road, Auburn CA 95603 · (530) 888-6257 · 91.81% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Auburn, California, Auburn Oaks Care Center is one of five available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable grade. The nursing homes in Auburn received high grades across the board with a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places in California to find a nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card was its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we wanted to emphasize its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in California in this area with 64.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B+. Nursing grades are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was long-term care, turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. This really is one of the couple of weak links on a strong report card. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. With a long-term care grade in this range, we were pleasantly surprised to find that this facility received good marks in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. Indeed, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.61089 percent of its residents. This statistic is actually higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.57 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Auburn Oaks Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which have sustained UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better