Discovery Care Centre

This facility received a short-term care grade which is stronger than its overall score. We gave this facility a B in this area. This helped its overall profile quite a bit. In computing these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually fared better than most nursing homes in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.278915 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this facility has earned respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B- in this category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

The last area we graded is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This particular place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.