Country View Nursing Facility

Country View Nursing Facility is in Bowling Green, Missouri. The city has 8,569 people. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel overall grade based on the data we looked at. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Bowling Green. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. The nursing rating includes a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more frequently.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best score was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 71.328674 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.57 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Among this nursing home's worst category grades was a lowly F for its inspection score. Generally, this indicates we found some red flags on the facility's government inspections. For nursing homes with poor inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The last area we graded was short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With its score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 28.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.