Autumn Ridge Rehabilitation Centre

Autumn Ridge Rehabilitation Centre is one of just a few facilities located in Wabash, Indiana. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. This nursing home did not have any redeeming qualities. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This particular nursing home received 12 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an D. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not one of our better scores. Our short-term care grades are important for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 37.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to our last area, this facility didn't perform well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.336784 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.