Autumn Ridge Rehabilitation Centre
600 Washington Ave, Wabash IN 46992 · (260) 563-8402 · 65.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 75 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Autumn Ridge Rehabilitation Centre Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better