Arlington Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received even higher marks in nursing. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another area of strength for this facility is in the area of inspections. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The last category we rated was long-term care, is this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This really was one of just a few weak links in a strong profile. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.58156 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.