Colfax Reunion Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Even though we gave this facility an abysmal overall grade, we surprisingly awarded it a B for our long-term care rating. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.41003 percent of its residents, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in this area. Unfortunately, this proved to be one of its better grades. Our short-term care ratings are critical for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its weak rating in this category, we were not surprised to discover this nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

We wanted to draw your attention to this place's inspection grade where it received a lowly F. For nursing homes with bad inspection grades, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines of more than $100,000. This typically indicates that a facility's bad track record spanned more than one year.

The final area we looked at was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a poor grade. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of performing poorly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had terrible scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in both of these metrics. This is quite alarming when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This sealed this nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.