Canterbury Center

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to note its high marks in the category of short-term care. We awarded them an A in this area, which was a rare bright spot for this place. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. The nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. Our inspection scores weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned more than one year.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.44752 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.