Augusta Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility also was awarded an impressive grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing grade includes a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it an F in this area. Despite several acceptable scores in other categories, this score is still of a concern so we wanted to point it out. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 95.652176 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.