Autumn Terrace Health & Rehabilitation

This nursing home's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in this area, with a B+. This is a notably better score than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facilities second best area is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. In forming our long-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's personal care services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 56.338028 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more often.

The last area we graded is short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. With our short-term care score, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Based on its abysmal rating in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.