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Autumn Care of Altavista

Nursing Home
Assisted Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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1317 Lola Ave,
Altavista VA 24517

(434) 369-6651

96.75% estimated occupancy ¹

Autumn Care of Altavista is an average-sized nursing home located in Altavista, Virginia. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is without a doubt a very impressive nursing home. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the country. As you can find below, this place also performed well in our category scores. It's hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pain Management

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Facility Inspections

To pair with a favorable overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

To complement its first-rate achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.31619 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we expected but still a decent figure. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Nurse Quality

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients more often.

Short-term Care Quality

The final category we scored is short-term care. This facility was given a better than average nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. Even though this is not as strong as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the more favorable scores for this category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more meaningful for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Autumn Care of Altavista Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 2.05% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 1.8% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 10.82% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 17.69% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 18.92% of Patients

This is the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 96.41% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 14.52% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 20.75% of Residents

This is the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 20.75% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 10.28% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Autumn Care of Altavista, 71.92% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.