Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care

Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care is a facility located in Providence, Rhode Island. This city has 203,571 people. This nursing home received a rock bottom overall score based on the data we assessed. We rated this as one of the three worst nursing homes in Providence. With so many other facilities in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

This facility also didn't grade out too badly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B- for that category, which is among its better grades. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. This facility provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 39.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's third highest score is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat poorly. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.78801 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.55 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning the final category of inspections, we gave this nursing home a D for our inspection category. This proved to be this nursing home's worst grade. We take a poor grade in this category very seriously. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to residents. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.