Canterbury House

This nursing home earned a short-term care grade which is better than its overall score. We gave this nursing home a B+ in this category. This really helped its overall profile. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. We looked at the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's next best area came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. Our long-term care grades are more critical for individuals requiring more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 88.26291 percent of its residents. This is many points lower than average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning the last category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is a very weak grade. Inspection grades factor in many items found on the facility's inspection reports. If you find too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had potential to create actual harm to residents. Finally, we need to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $100,000. This often suggests that a poor performance spanned multiple years.