Arbor Manor Care Center

In addition to earning a favorable overall score, this facility also received a strong short-term care score. We awarded it a B+ in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility received a strong long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. There are several factors included in this category. Many of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Lastly, we also found that this nursing home has earned favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded it a B- in this category. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.