Fairfax Community Home

We also found that this nursing home excelled in long-term care. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to this facility's impressive nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 8.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generallY be avoided with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning patients to avoid bed sores.

Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also received a dominant short-term care grade, with a score of A. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it provided substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. This rounded out a straight A report card for this nursing home. Our inspection grades are based on many data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.