Arbor Walk Healthcare Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. In calculating our long-term care grades, we look at the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the vaccine to only 69.060776 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack score in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the last category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing score is based on a handful of components, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.