Arbors at Milford

Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a B- in that category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Interestingly, this nursing home's terrible overall score can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We gave it a C for our inspections category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that it avoided the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we scored was long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 85.606064 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.