Colonial Acres Health Care Center is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which offers an abundance of nursing homes. Featuring an overall score of A, we graded this facility to be ranked among the top fifteen nursing homes in the city. Overall grades in this range are a reliable indication of a high quality facility. Based on our assessment, you can not go wrong with this place. Keep reading to see this place's category grades, which are equally impressive. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
Colonial Acres Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 7.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed is long-term care. Contributing to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed well in that category. In fact, it received a grade of of A- in that category. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 87.65432 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
In our final category, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its nursing rating. This wrapped up a very strong profile. Our nursing grade weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Acres Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 6.84% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents which suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 4.32% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a fall which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 2.81% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 16.37% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 12.17% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 4.73% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 93.57% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 13.28% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 20.05% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 20.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 12.78 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Colonial Acres Health Care Center, 76.19% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Minneapolis, MN
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Hennepin County Medical Center 1Acute Care Hospitals 4.77 miles away701 Park Avenue Minneapolis Minnesota 55415Government - Local(612) 873-3629
- Park Nicollet Methodist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.8 miles away6500 Excelsior Blvd Minneapolis Minnesota 55426Voluntary non-profit - Private(952) 993-5000
- Children's Hospitals & Clinics of MnChildrens 5.28 miles away2525 Chicago Avenue South Minneapolis Minnesota 55404Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 813-6112
- Abbott Northwestern HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.45 miles away800 East 28th Street Minneapolis Minnesota 55407Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 863-4457
- University of Minnesota Medical Center, FairviewAcute Care Hospitals 6.05 miles away2450 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis Minnesota 55454Voluntary non-profit - Private(612) 273-3000
- Fairview Southdale HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.71 miles away6401 France Avenue South Minneapolis Minnesota 55435Voluntary non-profit - Private(952) 924-5100
- Maple Grove HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.27 miles away9875 Hospital Drive Osseo Minnesota 55369Voluntary non-profit - Private(763) 581-1000
Nearby Dialysis
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