Family Care Center of Fairland

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility really fared well in long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home was given a B- for nursing, which is generally a decent rating. There are a number of data points within this grade. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.