Countryview Assisted Living

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also fared well in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was given a very impressive short-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its third best category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it an elite grade of A- for that category. This topped off its straight A report card. Our inspection grades are tied to data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these 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.