Autumn Lake Healthcare at Greenfield

Even though we graded this facility extremely poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. The nursing grade consists of a handful of datapoints, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric.

This facility also didn't perform too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which ended up being among its more respectable grades. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is frequently a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is well below average in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 90.169495 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a facility's government inspections. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This typically indicates that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.