Auburn Rehab & Hcc

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While 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 that 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. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

This facility wound up receiving a an abysmal score in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.06349 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final area we graded was nursing. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that area. The nursing score analyzes many data points, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.