Avocado Post Acute

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a quality score in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B in this category. The nursing score includes many datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also didn't grade out poorly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be another one of its more respectable grades. Long-term care grades are vital for patients seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 99.87775 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is generally a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Considering its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an abysmal grade. We weight this category more heavily than other categories. When a place has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we need to point out that this facility received significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This usually suggests that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.