Ayden Healthcare Waterville

While we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections rating. This is due to the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an D. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular place offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's second worse category is long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 75.11737 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.