Canterbury Villa of Alliance

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a B. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of deficiencies flagged. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next most favorable category turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are essential for residents needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.5671 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Moving on to our final category, this facility did not perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.