Fairview University Trans Serv

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded more than one A+ category scores. In determining these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 7.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also was awarded a first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, this is this nursing home's third best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It does not look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home received an extremely favorable nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it an A in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.