Fieldston Lodge Care Center

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this place also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. 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. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the vaccine to just 84.333336 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we rated is nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.