Fayette Caring Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

An additional strength of this facility is its top-shelf score in long-term care. We gave them one of our best grades in that category, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.5 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Sadly, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the final category we looked at. We gave it an F for this area. In spite of some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Nursing scores are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This place provided a meager 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.