Arlington Residence and Rehabilitation Center

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually received an impressive grade of A- in the area of nursing. Our nursing grade features numerous factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's next highest category was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is generally a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The key is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

This facility's second lowest score was long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average score. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.101265 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at was inspections. This facility didn't receive favorable government inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. For places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This often means that a bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.