Fairmount Homes
333 Wheat Ridge Drive, Ephrata PA 17522 · (717) 354-1800 · 90% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Fairmount Homes is an average-sized non-profit facility in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. After receiving an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the United States. As you can find below, this place also performed well in our category grades. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 114 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this category. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by both of these figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With below five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any facility the state in this category.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning our third area, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home's vaccination data lagged a bit behind a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.84772 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 42.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility permanently.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fairmount Homes Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better