Collington

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its fine profile, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility received a strong score of A in our long-term care area. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our next area, this facility was awarded a high-end nursing rating. In fact, we gave it an A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.