Country Club Retirement Center

With an address in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Country Club Retirement Center is one of six available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Mount Vernon, which admittedly is admittedly a little below average nationally. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this facility a respectable grade in the area of long-term care, with a B-. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. The last statistic we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.76 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is not too far off the national average.

Sadly, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 39.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at is nursing, which is this facility's least impressive area. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. The nursing grade assesses quite a few subcategories, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility offered just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.