Country Care

Country Care is the sole option we identified in Easton, Kansas. It looks like this is a fine facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable grade. As far as we can see, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong long-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of performing well in its overall score, this nursing home earned even higher grades in the area of long-term care. In fact, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 95.86207 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.54 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We awarded it an A- for that category. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area 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. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. When calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we graded was short-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall grade a bit. Our short-term care scores are presumably most meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 33.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.