Majestic Care of Fairfield

In addition to receiving a bad overall grade, we also gave this nursing home terrible scores in each of the categories. It only received just a D for its inspections score, which was its best area. Our inspection grades weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you find too many deficiencies on the reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an F. Our nursing category includes several components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we graded is short-term care. This facility's received a poor short-term care grade where it received an F. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was below average in several staffing figures we looked at. In fact, it provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The final area we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was given a rock bottom grade in this area also. It received an F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 48.872177 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.