Aurora Manor Special Care Cent

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. Our nursing score assesses a handful of factors, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This really was one of the couple of weak links of an otherwise strong profile. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 78.94737 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.