Countryside Estates

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This is far better than its overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility also received a positive score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.703705 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. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we graded is short-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest area. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is certainly concerning. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.