Aria Nursing and Rehab

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. Nursing grades are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

This nursing home earned a very good inspection report this year as well. For this reason, it received one of our better scores in that area with a B. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The next area we graded was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Nevertheless, you shouldn't judge this nursing home based solely on a single area, since it was given some excellent scores in other areas. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 99.06832 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.