Fairlawn Haven

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

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. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. This facility received a C in the area. Our long-term care ratings are important for prospective residents looking for non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.