Fairfax Health Care Center

Unfortunately, we did not have many favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall score or its category scores. Its best category came in nursing. However, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. There are numerous subcategories within this area. Most of these criteria are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is slightly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 86.59218 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

Among this facility's worst category grades was an F for its inspection rating. More often than not, this indicates we found some red flags on the facility's government inspection reports. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines recently of more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.

The next category we scored is short-term care. This nursing home was given a rock bottom grade of F in that category. In determining these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we were not surprised to find this facility was below average in many staffing areas we focus on. The nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.