Arrowhead Health and Rehab

Arrowhead Health and Rehab is an average-sized nursing home in Jonesboro, Georgia. This nursing home received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Jonesboro. The city has just one other nursing home. This nursing home's only redeeming quality was its inspection score, which you can find additional information on below.

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually wound up as its second highest category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 94.76309 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The next category we graded was short-term care, where this facility was given an F. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 44.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we looked at was nursing. We gave it an F in this category, which is a very poor grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This place provided only 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.