Avon Nursing Home

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 93.548386 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable nursing grade of C. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Although this nursing home did not have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding falls. This is typically an indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses and safety protocols are in place.