Autumn Care of Cornelius
19530 Mount Zion Parkway, Cornelius NC 28031 · (704) 997-2970 · 89.01% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Autumn Care of Cornelius is a nursing home located in Cornelius, North Carolina, which has 24,390 people. Featuring an overall rating of D, this is a well below average nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Cornelius. The best thing we can really say about this place is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about its category grades can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 102 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second strongest grade. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more critical for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home with 60.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not one of our better scores. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 96.42857 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our last area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for nursing. This was the facility's worst category grade. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had really bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Autumn Care of Cornelius Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better