Aurora on France

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a very favorable short-term care grade. We awarded them a dominant strong of A in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state 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 protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. In this area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This actually is this nursing home's weakest area. Long-term care ratings are essential for people seeking personal care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.969696 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.