Arcadia Care Jacksonville

Although we were down on this facility overall, we gave it a B+ in nursing. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a positive score in short-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this area, which is one of our better scores. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection score where it received a lowly F. This often means we found red flags on its government inspections. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to residents. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This often indicates that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel score here also. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. Long-term care ratings 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. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated only 55.479454 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.