Countryside Manor Health & Living Community

This facility received a favorable short-term care grade this year. We awarded them a strong score in that area, with a B+. This is a better grade than the facility's overall grade and was a boost to its overall profile. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. This is better than its overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. We gave it an abysmal F in this category. Despite several solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 75 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit less than average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.