Country Lane Gardens Rehab & Nursing Center

Neither this nursing home's overall score nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. Its best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a subpar grade. The nursing grade is based on a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is slightly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

In our next category, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is frequently a solid assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

Among this place's worst category grades was a lowly F for its inspection rating. More often than not, this means we found red flags on the facility's inspection reports. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for several years.

The final category we rated is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated a relatively low 63.486843 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.