Auburn Ravine Terrace

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. There are several subcategories included in this category. Most of these factors relate to staffing levels. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among its many dominant scores, this nursing home was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding another impressive category grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final category we analyzed is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in this area, with a B. Although this wasn't as dominant as some of its other grades, it is still a positive score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.