Family Care Center of Fairland

We awarded this facility a solid grade in long-term care, where it received a B+. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 85.36585 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's inspection grade also was better than its overall score. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home was given its third most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what effect this had on quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received a grade of C for nursing, which we consider to be an acceptable score. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.