Fauquier Health Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data 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 facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more often.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is among our highest grades. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

The next category we scored is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a favorable grade of B. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.