Family Care Center of Fairland

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it did receive a very good score in the category of inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's better category scores was in the category of short-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The critical question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. The nursing grade is based on many datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next area we scored is long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Long-term care scores in this range 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 looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.023254 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.