Autumn Care of Statesville

Autumn Care of Statesville is an average-sized facility located in stateville, North Carolina. This facility is a well below average facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in stateville. The city has just three other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The second best area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. It fared better than most facilities in this area with 51.4 percent of its residents returning home.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. There are a variety of datapoints included in this category. Most of the factors reflect nurse staffing. This facility offered only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

The last area we rated was long-term care. It received a lowly F in this category, which is a very poor grade. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.545456 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.74 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.