Canterbury Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Sadly, this nursing home's third best score is long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 89.50437 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The last category we looked at was short-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. This is clearly a significant disappointment. In our short-term care rating, we strive to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 2.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.