Westfield Quality Care of Aurora
PO Box 166, 1313 1st Street, Aurora NE 68818 · (402) 694-2128 · 98.43% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Westfield Quality Care of Aurora is a small nursing home located in Aurora, Nebraska. This nursing home received an overall rating of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Aurora. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 64 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a C in that category. Our short-term care grades are likely more important for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 34.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Nursing scores are primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the source of this facility's poor nursing grade. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is actually above average. In computing our ratings, we apply more weight to hours performed by highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. While it fared well in terms of nursing hours, this place received poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these datapoints. This is likely not a very good sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 21 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, this nursing home did not fare very well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. This facility's vaccination statistics lagged a bit behind some of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 65.50218 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westfield Quality Care of Aurora Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls which result in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for several medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better