Country Care Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's third best category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was given a B-. Our short-term care ratings are vital for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home was given an acceptable nursing score of C. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic.