Fayette Caring Center

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for this category, which is one of our highest grades. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also was given a fine long-term care score. We awarded them an elite strong of A- in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 86.23853 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing grade consists of many subcategories, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B. This facility ended up being very solid in all areas we analyzed. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is typically a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at 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.