Autumn Care of Fayetteville

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category 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 pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 95.10204 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our last area, we gave this facility a D in our nursing category. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Naturally, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these data points to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.