Fair Havens Christian Village

On top of receiving a poor overall score, we also gave this nursing home terrible grades across the board in each of the categories. It only received a grade of just D for its inspections rating, which was its top category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to patients. On top of having severe deficiencies, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We also wanted to note this nursing home's rock-bottom long-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 98.75777 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade consists of several datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home received a rock bottom score here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. With a score this poor for this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was below average in multiple staffing figures we looked at. The nursing home supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.