Family Care Center of Fairland

It should also be noted that this nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for its nursing grade. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also earned a strong inspection score. Inspection grades are based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home a B in this category. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. Short-term care grades are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this area, we awarded this facility a D. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.33333 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.