Autumn Leaves Nursing and Rehab

To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this place a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it received a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, this proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It does not appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The third category we analyzed was long-term care. This facility was given a favorable long-term care grade, with a B in the area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. In this area, we awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation 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 employing a system of moving a patient more often.