Fairfield Village Rehabilitation

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third category, this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility also performed admirably in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A in this area. This wrapped up truly elite profile. The nursing score is based on quite a few components, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.