Town and Country Health & Rehab

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this nursing home was awarded strong long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best grade. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also received a strong nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it a score of F in this area. The nursing grade weighs several factors, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a very poor score. This is clearly a major concern. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Based on its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.