Countryside Estates

Countryside Estates is a nursing home in Warner, Oklahoma, which has 2,531 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of F. 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 Warner. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that this facility received a somewhat respectable long-term care score this year. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. This facility's vaccination records weren't as impressive as its nursing hours data. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.59722 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. This place didn't excel here either, with 5.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this number can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of patients.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. In this facility's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its CMS reports, this facility provided an average of 5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was above the national average. Despite being above average in terms of nursing hours, this place had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a very poor nursing grade.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility really did not perform very well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different 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. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 29.9 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.