Arboretum Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Win

We awarded this facility an A for our long-term care grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also want to emphasize this place's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility an D. The nursing score includes quite a few subcategories, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's worst area is short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. In spite of multiple decent grades in other areas, this score is still disappointing so we wanted to point it out. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It appears that this facility was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.