Country View Nursing Facility

Unfortunately, we gave this facility some really poor grades. Among them were its F for its inspection grade. This is an especially important category. Grades in this range generally point to some red flags on the nursing home's government inspections. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This usually signifies that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an F. The nursing grade weighs a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another unfortunate development was the F this facility was given in the area of long-term care. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.59259 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was given a poor grade in this category as well. It received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home was well below average in several staffing metrics we focus on. It offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.