Fairview Developmental Center

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in nursing. We gave it an A for that category. The nursing grade features a host of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents more often.

We also want to emphasize the fact that this facility was given a superb grade of A in our long-term care area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection score. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. Our inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we rated, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility topped off a first-rate profile. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is generally a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.