Ashton Court Care and Rehabilitation Centre

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor long-term care grade where it received an F. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 80.05465 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection rating. Typically, this means we found some major red flags on the facility's inspection reports. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home'sbad performance spanned multiple years.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated is short-term care, in which this facility received a bottom of the barrel grade in this category also. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.5 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.