Fonda Specialty Care

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have very 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 major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was given an above average long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.77612 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 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 place 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.

Turning to the final area, this facility received an acceptable short-term care rating. Even though this isn't nearly as good as many of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.