Touchpoints at Farmington

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having access to the deficiency data, it was a challenge to fully grade this nursing home in this category.

Another one of this facility's quality category grades came in the category of short-term care. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more critical for folks needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. There are several factors within this category. Many of these criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility was given an acceptable long-term care score of C. Our long-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents in need of personal care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.