Fairview Fellowship Home for Senior Citizens

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 77.48918 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem 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.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. This actually proved to be this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.