Avalon Garden

Avalon Garden is an average-sized facility located in Saint Louis, Missouri. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires above average marks in most areas. This facility definitely has plenty of good features. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any weak links in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A for our long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 89.92248 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. This facility was awarded a favorable nursing grade this year, with a C. Although this is not nearly as dominant as a few of its other scores, this is still an acceptable rating in that area. Our nursing score considers a variety of factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in some of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.