Country Villa Sheraton

While we gave this nursing home an abysmal overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. There are many subcategories included in this category. Many of these criteria reflect staffing levels. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in that area, which is among its better scores. In our short-term care category, we try to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the category of long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed 10 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.