East Lake Arbor

We didn't have any favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall grade or its category scores. Nevertheless, with just a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Our nursing category consists of quite a few components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 85.80247 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

We wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its inspection grade. An F in this category is very concerning because it usually points to red flags on the nursing home's inspections. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was assessed one deficiency by government inspectors. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in a category that suggests that it posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this place received large government fines of over $100,000. This often means that a bad performance spanned more than one year.

The final area we looked at is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With a score of this caliber for this category, we were not stunned to discover this facility was below average in several staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.