Fleshers Fairview Health Care

In addition to faring well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its superb profile, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in the category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.1982 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a very favorable report card. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.