Arbors at Marietta

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care score this year. We gave it a C in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this nursing home. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

This facility also didn't grade out too badly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that area, which wound up being another one of its higher grades. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 89.544235 percent of its patients for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this category. When a place has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.