Bancroft Healthcare Center

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility received a B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. A nursing home is doing something right when it's poorest grade still outperforms most other nursing homes. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.