The Arlington of Naples

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We awarded them an A+ in this category. In computing our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This first-rate facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The last area we looked at ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would be a strength for most nursing homes. In fact, we awarded it a strong grade of B for long-term care. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 77.77778 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.