Canton Oaks

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection ratings 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. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second highest category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of B-. In our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This facility's next best category turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.52226 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we analyzed was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. In determining our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.