Audubon Health and Rehab

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also received first-rate health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded high scores in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.07772 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of C. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The next category we scored was nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of D in nursing, making this the facility's worst area. The nursing rating includes many subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.