Arbour Health Care Center

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a B- for our inspections rating. This grade is more respectable than the facility's overall grade. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, 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.

This facility's next best area was long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 96.264366 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. Our short-term care grades are vital for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

Our final area is nursing, in which we gave this facility a C in that category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.