Autumn Woods Health Care

Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. Its best category is nursing, but even there it received a D. This is still a weak score. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of factors, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not great. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's unfortunate long-term care grade where it received an F. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 99.59405 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, this facility received very weak government inspections in recent years, causing them to receive an F for inspections. An F in this area is typically a sign that we found some red flags on the facility's inspections. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.