Autumn Years Nursing Center
580 East Washington Street, Sabina OH 45169 · (937) 584-2497 · 72.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Autumn Years Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Sabina, Ohio. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This nursing home is really as bad as it gets. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection reports. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 50 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that category with a B. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only received a D for its long-term care score, which was actually one of its higher category scores. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.81022 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. With just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below average. In addition to its weak nursing hour totals, this nursing home earned poor marks in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this place's patients experienced falls leading to major injury.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care, which was a weak link for this facility. We awarded this facility a D in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more important for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. 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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Autumn Years Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better