Arbor Grace Wellness Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This place had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This tells you that this facility dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care rating and that actually wound up as its next highest score. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is not a very good score. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.181816 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The next category we assessed was nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. There are many data points within this category. Many of the subcategories are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the statistics we focus on, with solid scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care available.