Fairview Manor

We also want to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing category includes quite a few subcategories, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to inspections, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also received a fine short-term care grade. This actually is this facility's third strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. This facility received a better than average nursing score in our assessment, with a B. While this isn't nearly as strong as a few of its other category grades, this is still one of our better scores in that category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.27007 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.