Fairway Village

Fairway Village is a small government-owned facility located in Indianapolis, Indiana. We awarded this facility an overall score of A-, which is an impressive rating. In fact, it is one of the top ten nursing homes in Indianapolis. Even in a city of 49 other nursing homes, this facility really stands out. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category ratings, which are also quite good.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many elite grades, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.23 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this place also excelled in several quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.

The last area we rated was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. Although this turned out to be its poorest category rating, this is nevertheless a quality rating. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.