Arrowhead Healthcare Center is in San Bernardino, California, a city with a total of 236,660 people. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Even with San Bernardino featuring 11 other nursing homes available, this one looks like a fine choice. The best part of this place's report card was is its long-term care rating. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
Arrowhead Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
This place's long-term care score is notably more impressive than its overall grade. Due to a quality performance in this category, it earned one of our higher grades in that area with a B+. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.4898 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in inspections. It received one of our best grades in that area with a score of B+. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
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Nurse Quality
An additional reason we rated this facility so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 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 nursing home 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 prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Arrowhead Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This figure tells you the percent of long-term care residents who sustained UTI's. While more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 4.64% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 95.44% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Arrowhead Healthcare Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Scores for San Bernardino, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? San Bernardino, California has 10 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- St Bernardine Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.35 miles away2101 N Waterman Ave San Bernardino California 92404Voluntary non-profit - Private(909) 883-8711
- Community Hospital of San BernardinoAcute Care Hospitals 3.28 miles away1805 Medical Center Drive San Bernardino California 92411Voluntary non-profit - Private(909) 887-6333
- Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.55 miles away400 North Pepper Avenue Colton California 92324Government - Local(909) 580-1000
- Loma Linda University Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.33 miles away11234 Anderson St Loma Linda California 92354Voluntary non-profit - Private(909) 558-4000
- Mountains Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 9.45 miles away29101 Hospital Road Lake Arrowhead California 92352Government - Hospital District or Authority(909) 336-3651
- Redlands Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.1 miles away350 Terracina Blvd Redlands California 92373Voluntary non-profit - Private(909) 335-5500
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital FontanaAcute Care Hospitals 10.64 miles away9961 Sierra Ave Fontana California 92335Voluntary non-profit - Private(909) 427-5500
- Riverside Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.25 miles away4445 Magnolia Avenue Riverside California 92501Proprietary(951) 788-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita-Mountain Vista Dialysis Center2.67 miles away4041 University Parkway San Bernardino California 92407CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (909) 887-0173
- Fmc-Rai-North Waterman-San Bernardino2.86 miles away1500 N. Waterman Avenue. Suite A San Bernardino California 92404CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (909) 381-1591
- Davita Serrano Dialysis3.31 miles away1800 Medical Center Dr. Suite 150 San Bernardino California 92411Dialysis Stations: 25 (909) 887-2717
- Fmc-Rai-North Riverside-Rialto5.43 miles away1850 N. Riverside Avenue, Suite 150 Rialto California 92376CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (909) 879-1185
- Fmc-San Bernardino6.64 miles away636 E. Brier Drive, Suite 150 San Bernardino California 92408CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (909) 890-9508
- Davita-Citrus Valley Dialysis6.67 miles away894 Hardt Street San Bernardino California 92408CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (909) 388-6608
- Davita-Highland Ranch Dialysis Center7.19 miles away7223 Church Street, Suite a-14 Highland California 92346CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (909) 862-9670
- Fmc-Rai-Care Centers of Colton, LLC7.33 miles away1275 W. "C" Street Colton California 92324CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (909) 430-0930