Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is a facility located in Bellville, Ohio. The city has a population of 8,051 people. Featuring an overall score of C, this appears to be a decent nursing home. In our view, this facility ought to be a good fit for most people. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with an A+. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive grades. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's next best score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. With a grade in this range in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing figures we focus on. In fact, it provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest area is nursing, which is the final category we looked at. It received an abysmal F in this area. In spite of several decent scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. The nursing score weighs a handful of components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1.8% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 13.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients which are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 22.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 20% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 90.19% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 15.17% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.5% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.5 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Country Meadow Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 74.54% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Morrow County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.55 miles away651 West Marion Road Mount Gilead Ohio 43338Government - Local(419) 946-5015
- Knox Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.49 miles away1330 Coshocton Road Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Voluntary non-profit - Other(740) 393-9000
- Ohiohealth Shelby HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.14 miles away199 West Main Street Shelby Ohio 44875Voluntary non-profit - Private(419) 342-5015
Nearby Dialysis
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- Davita - Mid Ohio Dialysis10.38 miles away2148 W 4th St Mansfield Ohio 44906Dialysis Stations: 13 (419) 747-4039
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- Fmc - Knox County Kidney Center17.8 miles away14 Wood Lake Trail Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Dialysis Stations: 14 (740) 393-1624