Located in Newark, Ohio, Arlington Care Center is one of five available facilities there. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor facility. Sadly, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Newark, which is also well below average. The only positive thing we can say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Arlington Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second highest category was its short-term care score, where it received a C. In our short-term care score, we seek to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. 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 hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next highest category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.969696 percent of its residents. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The final category we rated is nursing, which was a weak spot for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D in our nursing category. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Arlington Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Arlington Care Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which suffered from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Arlington Care Center, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Arlington Care Center, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Arlington Care Center, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Arlington Care Center, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Arlington Care Center, 20.26% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression may imply worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Arlington Care Center, 90.12% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Arlington Care Center, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Arlington Care Center, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Arlington Care Center, 1.36 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Arlington Care Center, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Arlington Care Center, 12 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Arlington Care Center, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Scores for Newark, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of D
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Newark, Ohio has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Licking Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.45 miles away1320 West Main Street Newark Ohio 43055Voluntary non-profit - Private(220) 564-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Premiere Kidney Center of Newark0.97 miles away65 South Terrace Ave Newark Ohio 43055Dialysis Stations: 21 (740) 522-2955
- Davita - Cherry Valley Dialysis0.98 miles away1627 W. Main Street Newark Ohio 43055Dialysis Stations: 26 (740) 522-1699
- Davita Pataskala Dialysis14.1 miles away642 East Broad Street Pataskala Ohio 43062Dialysis Stations: 8 (740) 964-1306
- Fmc Canal Winchester, LLC19.99 miles away1310 Hill Road North Suite 100 Pickerington Ohio 43147Dialysis Stations: 13 (614) 751-8660