Archway Transitional Care Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next best category is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this category. Our long-term care scores are more critical for people requiring more conventional assistance related to personal care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.06542 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Sadly, this facility's third highest score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. It received a lowly F for this category. In spite of a few acceptable grades in other areas, this score is still concerning so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.