Bath Manor Special Care Centre

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is what you want to see on an inspection report.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 94.559586 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care, is this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. This really is one of the few weak points in a strong profile. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this nursing home offers less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.