Coleman House

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in this category. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility was awarded strong marks in the category of short-term care as well. In fact, we gave it one of our most dominant scores in that category with a score of A-. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. There are quite a few datapoints included in this grade. Many of the datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.