Located in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center is one of just a few available nursing homes in the city. This facility is ranked among the best facilities we found. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate marks across the board. Indeed, this proved to be the best facility in the city. The best part of this facility's impressive report card was its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having access to the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it was difficult to fully assess the place in the inspections category.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received an elite grade of A- in our long-term care area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.4375 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
In our final area, we awarded this nursing home a A for its nursing score. This finished off a very favorable profile. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 3.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 8.98% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients who have experienced a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 5.37% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 23.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 21.65% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 99.22% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 13.39% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 16.7% of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 16.7% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 14.98% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Royal of Fairhaven Nursing Center, 73.88% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Southcoast Hospital Group, IncAcute Care Hospitals 12.84 miles away363 Highland Avenue Fall River Massachusetts 02720Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 679-3131
- Saint Anne's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.34 miles away795 Middle Street Fall River Massachusetts 02721Proprietary(508) 674-5600
- Falmouth HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.59 miles away67 & 100 Ter Heun Drive Falmouth Massachusetts 02540Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 548-5300
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care of Fairhaven1.47 miles away216 Huttleson Avenue Fairhaven Massachusetts 02719Dialysis Stations: 19 (508) 996-0364
- Davita New Bedford Dialysis4.18 miles away237-B State Road North Dartmouth Massachusetts 02747CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (508) 992-0629
- Hawthorn Kidney Center4.5 miles away537 Faunce Corner Road North Dartmouth Massachusetts 02747CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (508) 994-9692
- Dialysis Center of Tiverton12.46 miles away22 Hurst Lane Tiverton Rhode Island 02878Dialysis Stations: 21 (401) 624-4403
- Fresenius Medical Care of Wareham12.84 miles away100 Rosebrook Way Suite 100 Wareham Massachusetts 02571Dialysis Stations: 13 (508) 291-1100
- Fall River Kidney Center LLC13.07 miles away48 Weaver Street Fall River Massachusetts 02720CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 41 (508) 677-4911