Arden Place of Beaumont

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A-. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.91304 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Turning to the final category, we gave this facility a grade of D in nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category rating. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this place also received poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing grades. We found that more of this facility's patients experienced falls leading to serious injury. We believe that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a terrible nursing rating.