Autumn Care of Fayetteville

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to this nursing home's list of achievements, it also was given a superb short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Our short-term care grades are important for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next best area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In computing these long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 95.07576 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of D in nursing. This was the facility's worst category score. Naturally, this category hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. Our nursing score considers several factors. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Although this place didn't excel in the area of nursing hours, it surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.