Fair Oaks Health and Rehabilitation

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B in this area, which is much better than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. We weren't able to track down deficiency data for this facility. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency data, it is challenging to really grade it in this area.

This facilities second best area was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.22615 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facilities third most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we scored is nursing, which proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that area. There are many subcategories within this category. Most of these factors relate to staffing levels. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.