Autumn Breeze Health and Rehab

Neither this facility's overall score nor its category scores gave us much to write home about. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received a lowly D. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that area. As it turns out, this ended up being one of its better features. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

This place received an F for its inspection rating. When a facility has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The final category we assessed was nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal score in this area as well. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. There are numerous criteria within this grade. Many of these criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.