Country Villa East Nursing Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it an A- for our nursing rating. This score is much better than the facility's overall rating. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

This nursing home was given its second best category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 3.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home earned slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of C in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means it avoided the more significant classes of deficiencies. Lastly, we would like to note that this nursing home was assessed some government fines recently. Fortunately these were on the lower end of the spectrum. Nevertheless, this still isn't what we want to find.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.631 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.