Autumn Wood Memory Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 80.645164 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also want to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The final category we graded is short-term care. This nursing home received an above average short-term care rating this year, with a grade of C. Even though this is not nearly as dominant as some of its other scores, this is still a decent rating for this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. It does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.