Arbors at Stow

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our short-term care rating, which isn't too bad of a score. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Sadly, this facility's next best category was long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 96.590904 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

In the last category of government inspections, we gave this facility a D for our inspection category. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. We take a weak grade in this category very seriously. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to patients. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.