Regency at Canton

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of B-. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with patients and the skill 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. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

One of this facility's more respectable category grades was in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility received mediocre inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Turning to the last category, we awarded this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's least impressive category score. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 98.64865 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.