Arbors at Marietta

While we were down on this facility overall, we awarded it a B in nursing. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our nursing score consists of quite a few datapoints, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. This proved to be the nursing home's second best grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.50617 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received a terrible score. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's bad performance spanned multiple years.