The Estates of Perryville

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom scores in our assessment. Perhaps most alarmingly, it received an F for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 86.94362 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is typically a signal that we found some red flags on its inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines of over $100,000. This often indicates that a nursing home'spoor track record spanned several years.

This nursing home wound up receiving a a terrible grade in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this area. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility really didn't fare well here either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. When computing our nursing grades, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.