Fountain View Health & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing rating is based on quite a few components, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients even once per day.

This nursing home also was given a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Short-term care grades are generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our next category, this facility received a decent long-term care score. Even though this is not nearly as strong as some of its other grades, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. Long-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.590164 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.