Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation is in Augusta, Maine. The city has a population of 26,086 people. We have a high opinion of this nursing home, which we gave a B+ overall. We were equally impressed with the city grade of nursing homes in Augusta, making this a great place to find a nursing home. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card was its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph
Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility performed well in our nursing category. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. Indeed, it received one of our most favorable grades in that area with a score of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. This actually was this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a major area of concern. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 92.9293 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 6.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 3.91% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 3.22% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 20.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 16.44% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 8.43% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression may indicate worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 94.03% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 14.38% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 24.84% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 1.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 24.84 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 14.74 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Augusta Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 73.12% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Augusta, ME
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Augusta, Maine has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mainegeneral Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4 miles away35 Medical Center Parkway Augusta Maine 04330Voluntary non-profit - Other(207) 626-1000
- Northern Light Inland HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.15 miles away200 Kennedy Memorial Drive Waterville Maine 04901Proprietary(207) 861-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Kennebec Kidney Center2.91 miles away164 Civic Center Drive Augusta Maine 04330CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (207) 622-7097
- Bio-Medical Applications of Maine, Inc.5.53 miles away46 Summer Street Gardiner Maine 04345Dialysis Stations: 10 (207) 582-0148