East Lake Arbor
304 Fifth Avenue, Decatur GA 30030 · (404) 373-6231 · 86.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
East Lake Arbor is an average-sized nursing home in Decatur, Georgia. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's mediocre overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are five other nursing homes in Decatur. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 103 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We just could not find anything good to say about this place. It received a D in the area of long-term care. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 61.609905 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 2.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't as bad since it had some more complicated patients. This is its best feature in this category
Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is generally a signal that we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a place has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed a deficiency on its inspection report. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in one of the categories that suggest that it caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 2 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Another unfortunate development is the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. In our short-term care score, we seek to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 36.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed is nursing. We gave it an F for this area, which is a poor score. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This place averaged a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing score significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
East Lake Arbor Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better