Arbors at Gallipolis

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home's short-term care rating turns out to be one of its better grades. The nursing home received a B- in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing grade analyzes several datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

Moving on to the fourth category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for our long-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.49123 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.