The Arbors

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a score of A- for that category. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, where this facility received a B. While this is its weakest category score, this is still an above average score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.