Canterbury Center

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to note its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an A in this category. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. Inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded its next most favorable category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a decent score. In forming these long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.50495 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we graded is nursing, was this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a D in that area. This really was one of the few weak points in an otherwise impressive report card. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.