Canfield Healthcare Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, 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.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more important for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, where this facility was given an abysmal grade in this area also. We gave it an F for this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.650795 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.