Fowler Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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8448 East Adams Avenue,
Fowler CA 93625

(559) 834-2519

86.08% estimated occupancy ¹

Fowler Care Center is the lone facility we were able to find in Fowler, California. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is among the top scores we offer. A score of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the United States. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
No Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home also was elite in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.478874 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Many of these subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we rated is short-term care. In this area, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This actually is this facility's weakest area. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Fowler Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Fowler Care Center, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay residents which suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Fowler Care Center, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients which have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Fowler Care Center, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients which suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Fowler Care Center, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Fowler Care Center, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Fowler Care Center, 4.33% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Fowler Care Center, 95.72% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Fowler Care Center, 8.37% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Fowler Care Center, 14.05% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility. Some argue that mobility is critical to residents' health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Fowler Care Center, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.