Canterbury Villa of Alliance

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means 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 area ended up being its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this category. We found that it fared well in this area with 62.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 95.98214 percent of its patients, which is an above average datapoint. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.62 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The last area we looked at was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.