Center at Arrowhead

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. The nursing score analyzes a handful of datapoints, most of which are based on nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. While this is not quite as dominant as a few of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a respectable rating for this area. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.