Fairview Nursing Care Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. The nursing grade weighs several factors, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we scored is long-term care. We awarded it a C in that category. This is a fair grade in this category. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 97.798164 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.