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 95.88689 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.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. We gave this nursing home an D. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. This is one of just a few weak links of an otherwise impressive profile. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It appears that this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.