Countryside Health Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's 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 residents. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 87.5 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's second least favorable category is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. In our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this place's case, it looks like it provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

This facility's worst category is nursing, which is the last category we looked at. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. The nursing grade consists of quite a few data points, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.