Fairport Baptist Homes

Fairport Baptist Homes is a large non-profit facility in Fairport, New York. With an overall rating of A, this is undoubtedly a world class nursing home. We really can not say enough good things about this place. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which are equally impressive. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its elite assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.254906 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.96 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also want to point out the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite score of A- in our short-term care area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is typically a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This place fared better than most nursing homes in the nation with 55.2 percent of its residents returning home.

In the last category we scored, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A report card. When computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. With 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.