Meadows on Fairview

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A for that area. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

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+. The nursing rating features a variety of factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated turned out to be this nursing home's poorest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for our long-term care category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.