Fountain View Manor

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a favorable score in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our higher scores. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest category is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. With our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't shocked to learn that this nursing home offers substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we scored was nursing, which is this facility's least impressive category. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is clearly very concerning. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.