Augusta Medical Center Skilled Ca

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility performed well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most impressive scores. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was given a very positive long-term care score, with a B+ in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we looked at was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. It received an F in this area, which is obviously a bit of a disappointment. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. With only 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.