Fieser Nursing Center

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our nursing rating. This grade is quite a bit more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was awarded positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

In our last area of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home's bad performance spanned more than one year.