Fair Haven Shelby County

While this nursing home received a decent overall rating, its inspections score is notably more impressive than its overall grade. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility was awarded its next best category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a respectable grade. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.64158 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Nursing grades are primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final area we looked at is short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in that area. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.