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. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this facility also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A- in that category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.42857 percent of its patients for pneumonia, 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 patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we assessed proved to be this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for nursing. We looked at the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.