Autumn Care of Cornelius

While this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it fared pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's next best category was short-term care, but it still received just a D in that category. This ended up being a well below average score. With our short-term care rating, we try to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With a score in this range for this area, we weren't shocked to discover this nursing home was below average in multiple staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics doomed this facility's short-term care score.

Another issue was the F this facility received in the category of long-term care. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 92.94606 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.

The last category we scored is nursing, in which this nursing home received an abysmal grade here as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these data points to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.