Fair Haven of Forest City
830 Bethany Church Road, Forest City NC 28043 · (828) 245-2852 · 93.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Fair Haven of Forest City is an average-sized nursing home located in Forest City, North Carolina. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. This isn't the worse facility we found, however, we'd still be very reluctant to recommend it. The best thing we can really say about this place is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this nursing home a poor overall rating, we gave it a fairly respectable score in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B-. This was better than its other categories. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded its next best category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this area, which is a decent grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility performed better in this statistic. This place fared better than most nursing homes in this metric with 53.6 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The third most favorable area we gave this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.51 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's least impressive area was nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. For this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had really poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients sustaining falls leading to major injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fair Haven of Forest City Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better