Arbor Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation

To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also was given a favorable score in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.81423 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing rating includes many factors, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Turning to the final area, we gave this nursing home a D in the area of short-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Naturally, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care scores are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we found that it provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.