Arrowhead Healthcare Center

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.

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.

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.

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.