Fairport Baptist Homes

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few places fared as well in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.166664 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we assessed is nursing. We gave this facility an acceptable grade in this area, with a grade of C. Although this isn't as strong as a few of its other grades, it is still a middle of the pack score. Our nursing score includes many data points, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.