Autumn Care of Myrtle Grove

This nursing home really excelled at short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This salvaged its profile. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility received its third highest category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 78.11159 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we assessed is inspections. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find that this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it a grade of just just D in this area. Clearly, this score is not on par with some of this facility's other grades. Inspection grades relate to a nursing home's government inspection reports. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with a category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that CMS found a deficiency which puts patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Lastly, we also need to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This often suggests that a nursing home's bad track record spanned more than one year.