Greenfield Care Center of Fairfield

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. There are several criteria included in this category. Most of these datapoints are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in that category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility's second worse category was long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this facility's overall score quite a bit. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular facility was hit with a deficiency by CMS. Fortunately, it was not in a category that suggests that it posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for several years.