Autumn Wood Memory Care

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our long-term care rating. In forming our long-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 56.818184 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating and that actually proved to be its second highest grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines of over $100,000. This usually suggests that a nursing home'sbad track record has been an issue for more than one year.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care grade. This is not a score to write home about. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its poor grade in this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last area we graded was nursing, which is a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D in our nursing category. There are a variety of criteria within this grade. Most of these subcategories relate to nurse staffing. 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. To go along with its low total nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had bad scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents having falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.