Town Hall Estates Arlington

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with a grade of A. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. The last statistic we looked at was its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.56 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of residents.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this area. Our short-term care ratings are vital for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this metric with 53 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we graded was nursing. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. Our nursing rating includes many factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is better than average. In calculating our grades, we apply additional weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as minimizing major falls. This place performed admirably in this subcategory.