Fair Oaks Health and Rehabilitation

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is far better than its overall rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have deficiency data for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having the deficiency data, it ended up being challenging to really grade it in this area.

This facility's long-term care grade turns out to be one of its better scores. The nursing home received a C in this category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 94.719475 percent of its patients, which is a very solid total. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing rating weighs a handful of datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This place averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next area we assessed was short-term care, turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.