Fairview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
184 Bethlehem Pike, Philadelphia PA 19118 · (215) 247-5311 · 92.32% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Fairview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a population of 1,526,206 people. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this facility, as it received an overall rating of F. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. Finally, inspections was the lone shining light in our review of this nursing home. You can find additional information on this category below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 176 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest category is long-term care, but it nevertheless earned a grade of just D in that category. This still happens to be a well below average grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 63.96552 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home fared poorly with 2.79 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is nearly double the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
Our next category we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility received an F. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is typically a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 43.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next area, this facility really did not fare very well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. In computing our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fairview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better