August Healthcare at Richmond is a small nursing home located in Henrico, Virginia. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B which is a very respectable overall rating. It outscored many of the facilities in Henrico by a sizable margin. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its long-term care grade, which we will address in the next section.
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August Healthcare at Richmond
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility received a strong overall grade as mentioned above, but we wanted to emphasize its excellent long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 86.40777 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility 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.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. Our nursing grade consists of several subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home 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 nursing home 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned a B for its inspections score. This is an above average score in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
August Healthcare at Richmond Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 4.82% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 2.91% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 4.3% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 21.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 3.96% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 91.42% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 19.19% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 22.27% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In August Healthcare at Richmond, 22.27% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Scores for Henrico, VA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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