Country View Nursing Facility

This facility received a long-term care grade which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home a B+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 54.248367 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable grades. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. Since this data is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight a poor performance in this category. This really pulled down this place's overall score. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility was assessed 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's bad track record spanned multiple years.