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.

Turning to our final area, we awarded this facility a D for our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall profile a bit. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.62825 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.