Autumn Oaks Caring Center

Autumn Oaks Caring Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Mountain Grove, Missouri. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. You can certainly do much worse than this nursing home. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this category. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home received high marks in the area of short-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our most elite grades in that category with a area of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 61.5 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. The nursing rating is based on many datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility's worst category is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.54 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.