Avon Place

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also was given a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in that category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The third most favorable area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.61993 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the next category, this facility was awarded a decent nursing grade of C. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric.