All 4 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Arlington,
side by side on the things that separate them: how many nursing hours each resident gets, how much of the
staff leaves each year, and what inspectors found on their last visit.
Regency Care of Arlington is a 240-bed for-profit home with a genuine split in its record. The clinical numbers look good, a 4/5 on quality measures, but staffing sits at just 1/5, well below what you'd want for a building this size, and that's the number that shapes daily life. Twenty-seven deficiencies on the current record is a lot, though none rose to harm or jeopardy, and one was abuse-related, which deserves a direct question. The last inspection was July 2023, so the picture may be dated. Ask about direct-care hours per resident and how the abuse finding was resolved.
Carlin Springs runs lean on the floor: 3.22 nurse hours per resident day, roughly 17% under the national average, and weekends drop about another 10% below its own weekday pace. That thin coverage shows up in the inspection record, which carries 41 deficiencies, two of them serious enough to involve harm or jeopardy, and the last full inspection was back in July 2022. Turnover at 37.3% is actually better than the 45.8% national figure, and the quality measures score well, so this isn't a home where care is falling apart. It's one where you'd want to visit on a Saturday and ask who's actually on the unit.
Cherrydale runs 210 certified beds under corporate for-profit ownership, and the numbers that matter most here are the staffing ones. Nurses deliver 3.59 hours per resident day, about 7 percent under the national average, and weekend coverage drops roughly 14 percent below what the home staffs on weekdays. Turnover sits at 63.2 percent against a national average of 45.8 percent, well over half the nursing staff leaving in a year. The inspection record shows 77 deficiencies, three at harm or jeopardy level and six abuse-related, with a $18,066 fine and a 1-out-of-5 inspection rating. The 5-out-of-5 quality measure score stands out against all of that, though it's worth asking what's driving the gap.
The Jefferson runs 31 beds in Arlington, and the numbers behind its record are worth pausing on. Inspectors have cited 63 deficiencies, four of them at the level where a resident was actually harmed or put in jeopardy, and four tied to abuse, with three fines totaling $61,065. Staff turnover sits at 68.3% against a national average of 45.8%, which tracks with its one-star staffing rating, and the most recent inspection was March 2026. What's odd is the quality measure score: five stars, meaning the clinical data the home reports looks good even as its staffing and inspection records don't. Ask what that gap actually reflects before you decide.