Fairway Village

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. 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. A deficiency-free inspection report is what we like to see.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average short-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. In our long-term care score, we assess the amount of services provided by a facility, along with a series of quality statistics. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we analyzed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a B- in that area. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are with patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care.