Arbor Walk Healthcare Center

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 71.97802 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we scored was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. This actually is this nursing home's worst area. A facility is doing something right when their worst grade still is better than most other facilities. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.