Windsor House at Canfield

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in that area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category grade. In this area, we awarded this facility a B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.512436 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a C for this area. Our short-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.