Awe Kualawaache Care Center

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing rating exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. When computing our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient even once per day.

This nursing home also was awarded a positive short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a B in that category, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

We also gave this nursing home a respectable score in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 87.30159 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received a terrible grade. With an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility received large government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This usually signifies that a facility's poor performance spanned several years.