Country View Nursing and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing score is based on several factors, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given strong long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in this area, with a B. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.3271 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last area we assessed. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this place was subpar in the two key staffing metrics we assessed. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients 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 subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.