Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center

Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Fayetteville, Tennessee. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is among the highest grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. We could not find many bad things to say about this facility. Its ratings are just impeccable. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.86 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. When calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Tennessee in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients more frequently.

The last category we analyzed proved to be this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for short-term care. In computing these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared respectably with 47.3 percent of its patients returning home.