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 36.21795 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. 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.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grades are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. With a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.