Arlington Care Center

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facilities second most favorable category was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more medically-intensive services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.4127 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The last category we assessed is nursing, which is this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is certainly concerning. We assessed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this area. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in two of the major areas we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are typically good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.