Country View Nursing and Rehabilitation

To pair with its strong overall grade, this facility earned a grade of B+ for its inspections rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most meaningful for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing rating assesses many datapoints, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. For that category, we awarded this facility a B-. Long-term care grades are based in part on a facility's amount of care. This includes a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.27559 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.