Arden Post Acute Rehab

Although this nursing home's overall grade is not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the category of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that area, which is a decent score. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the category of short-term care, with a B-. In determining these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our long-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.414894 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.