Arbors at Stow

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall performance, it did receive an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B+. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an C. The nursing rating is based on a variety of subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not one of our better scores. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 97.76119 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we looked at was short-term care, which is this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place was below average in multiple staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.