Avalon Village

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This facility received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility was awarded its next most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a decent score. Our short-term care grades are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 96.1326 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The next category we assessed was nursing, proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic dragged down this nursing home's nursing score significantly.