Countryside Healthcare and Rehabilitation

Countryside Healthcare and Rehabilitation is a large nursing home located in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a solid grade. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this nursing home a respectable score in the category of long-term care, with a grade of B-. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the amount of services offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is not too far off the national average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing category analyzes quite a few subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also considered quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility was above average in several of the major statistics we assessed, including minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These datapoints are sometimes accurate measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

The final area we looked at is short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 27.8 percent of its residents returning home.