Countryside Manor

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility an impressive grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our more impressive grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.5122 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility's next highest score was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in many staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next area we scored is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is certainly a significant concern. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This place provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.