Regency Care of Arlington

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received favorable long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in this area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's second highest grade. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.01339 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack grade in the area of short-term care, where it received a B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a meaningful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to our next category, this facility received a grade of B- for nursing, which we consider to be a respectable score. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. In addition to ranking poorly in terms of nursing hours provided, this nursing home also fell short in certain statistics that are tied to quality of care. This facility's nursing score was hurt by poor performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. We found that 18.452381 percent of this nursing home's residents were suffering from pressure ulcers. This is more than double the average nursing home. Since many pressure ulcers could be avoided with sufficient nursing protocols, we reduce a nursing home's nursing score when we see this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.