Autumn Hills Health Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, this nursing home received a grade of B+ for its inspections grade. This is an above average grade in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in that category. This is not a bad grade in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.