Armour Oaks Senior Living Community

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing score is based on quite a few subcategories, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also excelled in inspections. We gave it an B+ for that category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility was given its next most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent grade. In computing these long-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to just 77.51938 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility received an acceptable short-term care grade of C. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.