Countryview Care Center-Macomb

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything positive to point out. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received just a D. Our short-term care grades are important for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This place offered just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home received an abysmal score here also. It received an F in this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 77.33333 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.