Aurora Senior Living of Derry

Aurora Senior Living of Derry is a small facility located in Derry, New Hampshire. This nursing home received an overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Derry. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection reports. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's more respectable category scores was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.60465 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was less impressive. We found that this nursing home had 2.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this category. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 44.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility did not perform well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility offered a meager 2.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.